as in to chase
to go after or on the track of
suspecting infidelity, he hired a private detective to bird-dog his wife
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Verb
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Brent Rooker, who hit a two-run homer to snap an 0-for-20 slump and give the Athletics a 2-0 lead in the first, had an RBI single to chase Gaddis.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
2 May 2026 -
Tollinche’s mom confronted them with a broom, chasing them away, a law enforcement source said.—
Emma Seiwell,
New York Daily News,
1 May 2026
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Most importantly: Ian finds and adopts Rollo, the greatest wolf dog who ever lived.—
Maggie Fremont,
Vulture,
26 Mar. 2026
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Silver moment of the Games: Everyone loved it when Nazgul, the 2-year-old Czech wolf dog, joined the women’s cross-country competition at the end and ran, without benefit of skis, across the finish line.—
John Cherwa,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Quijano's team was able to track the orbits of the 15 binary systems to millisecond accuracy.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
28 Apr. 2026
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The Fall-Winter 2026 Vogue Business size inclusivity report identified declines in both mid- and plus-size representation on the runway, to the lowest levels since the publication started tracking this data three years ago.—
Rory Satran,
Vogue,
28 Apr. 2026
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Jessie Holmes and his team of sled dogs successfully defended their Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race title this week, becoming the first musher to accomplish the feat in a decade.—
Brittney Melton,
NPR,
19 Mar. 2026
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The grueling sled dog race covers about 1,000 miles in the Alaska wilderness.—
Daniel Wine,
CNN Money,
18 Mar. 2026
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Senators Chris Murphy and Ruben Gallego have spoken publicly about wanting to pursue this, and Bedoya notes that there’s precedent for this action, citing Democrats’ recent introduction of a bill to break up the meatpacking industry to create lower prices for consumers.—
Hershal Pandya,
Vulture,
30 Apr. 2026
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Some states have post-mortem rights, allowing estates and heirs to pursue claims for varying amounts of time after a celebrity has died, while others don’t.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
30 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Cassie is trying to become social-media famous, suggestively flashing her all-American assets online in a variety of fetishy costumes (a puppy dog, a pacifier-sucking baby).—
Naomi Fry,
New Yorker,
18 Apr. 2026
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Unlike the children, who look like waxy versions of my own, this is my husband, with the soft face and the plaid shirt and the puppy dog— Eyes.—
Glamour,
Glamour,
7 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Then he was dogged by rumors that his Netflix road-trip docuseries with former One Direction mate Louis Tomlinson went belly-up because the two got into a verbal and then physical argument that tanked the show.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
1 May 2026
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For Swift, the criticism that dogged her career ultimately sparked some of her biggest hits.—
Lauryn Overhultz,
FOXNews.com,
28 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Alexander was a hunter and gamekeeper on the Auch Estate, a massive 68-square mile farm in the Scottish Highlands near Bridge of Orchy.—
Jessica Sager,
PEOPLE,
3 May 2026
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Luckily, a duck hunter happened upon it, and repair crews patched it that night.—
John Ryan,
NPR,
3 May 2026
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“Bird-dog.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bird-dog. Accessed 7 May. 2026.
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