bird-dogs 1 of 2

present tense third-person singular of bird-dog

bird dogs

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noun

plural of bird dog

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for bird dogs
Verb
  • Los Angeles chases a repeat and a third championship since 2020 while Toronto arrives to the Fall Classic for the first time in 32 years.
    Tim Crowley, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
  • More money chases the same market, and some people start paying more.
    Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 19 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The sports books spend hundreds of millions on advertising annually, primarily during games, along with pregame and post-game shows, according to MediaRadar, which tracks and estimates ad spending.
    Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Every Friday morning, the weekly Fortune 500 Power Moves column tracks Fortune 500 company C-suite shifts—see the most recent edition.
    Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Marty Supreme stars Chalamet as Marty Mauser, a ping pong player in the 1950s who ruthlessly pursues table tennis greatness.
    Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Oct. 2025
  • As the White House pursues immigration crackdowns in Democrat-run cities, viral videos made by some pro-Trump influencers recently drew attention to the Canal Street vendors, and local businesses have called for more police presence there.
    J.D. Capelouto, semafor.com, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Horimiya follows two high school teens, popular girl Hori and gloomy Miyamura, who grow close after agreeing to keep their home lives a secret from their peers.
    Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The follow-up to the uproarious La Dolce Vita, Fellini’s fantastical movie within a movie follows a film director who suffers a creative block during the production of his newest work.
    Erik Morse, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • KPop Demon Hunters follows a world-famous K-pop girl group who moonlight as demon hunters.
    Ingrid Vasquez, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Some trappers focus on humane, live-capture and relocation for nuisance animals, while others are licensed hunters who can legally trap and kill animals during hunting seasons.
    Chris McKeown, Cincinnati Enquirer, 25 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Medlin escorts me down the hall to the judge’s office, where Skeet is in a meeting with some local men.
    Mitch Moxley, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Foreign reporters can currently only enter Gaza when the Israeli military allows and escorts them.
    Filip Timotija, The Hill, 15 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Some dogs his size might have ended up getting into some pretty major trouble trying to climb up onto the swing seat, but not Hank.
    Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Holtz and other South Florida hospitals have long used therapy dogs to provide patients with emotional support, either by hiring handlers to bring in the furry companions or by having their own in-house therapy dogs to make more frequent rounds.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • An advertisement for the Résonance, which Francis Ford Coppola saved and was later found by his wife, leading to the gift, accompanies the watch, Boutros says.
    Laurie Brookins, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2025
  • But more important to the story than the autobiographical details, which in any case are swallowed up by the vortex of fiction, is the devastating loss of meaning that accompanies the death of a child.
    Karl Ove Knausgaard, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2025
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“Bird dogs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bird%20dogs. Accessed 27 Oct. 2025.

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