dogging 1 of 2

as in pursuit
the act of going after or in the tracks of another the merciless dogging of the Hollywood couple by the press

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dogging

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verb

present participle of dog

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Recent Examples of dogging
Noun
He's just been straight raw-dogging the last three days, staring off into space. Dalton Ross, EW.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Verb
Already, productivity declines are dogging the industry. Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 10 Sep. 2025 Great cornerbacks are football’s tawny owls, the biggest of the big-game hunters, dogging prey through darkness and chaos. Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 31 Aug. 2025 He's been raw-dogging it the whole time. Dalton Ross, EW.com, 25 Aug. 2025 The arrival of the new Model Y and the controversy dogging the Tesla brand are conspiring to flood the market with legacy Ys, driving prices down. Brooke Crothers, Forbes.com, 6 Apr. 2025 Disney’s live-action ‘Snow White’ has faced a difficult road to its opening next week, with external controversies dogging it at every step. Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2025 Let’s delve into the (fading) headwinds that are dogging REITs. Michael Foster, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025 After dogging questions about The Devil Wears Prada for years, Anna Wintour is finally sharing her true thoughts on the comparisons between her and Meryl Streep‘s Miranda Priestley. Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019 This has been the main difficulty dogging the development of lithium-sulfur batteries. Weiyang Li, IEEE Spectrum, 23 Aug. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dogging
Noun
  • The struggle of artistic pursuit against personal and political constraints is a subtext embedded throughout An Unfinished Film.
    Yangyang Cheng, NPR, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Schedule networking activities that balance your personal and professional pursuits.
    Sarah Maokosy, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Entrepreneurs are first pulled toward their passion in all sorts of ways—whether that be through an overbearing parent, chasing a childhood dream career, or realization that a hobby can bring in millions.
    Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2025
  • The rest of the industry wants to emulate this success, but as many editors know, chasing a trend can be a futile endeavor.
    Rebecca Ackermann, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The former is the owner of a New York City hotspot; the latter is a man on the run from loan sharks, with heaps of personal issues and bad debts hounding him.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Inappropriate client interaction such as hounding a woman to come over to his house late at night and slipshod work that ended with a grandmother’s eviction got a Daytona Beach attorney suspended from his law career for two years.
    David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 17 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • According to aircraft tracking service FlightRadar24, the Airbus H130 helicopter operated as Reach 5 had taken off from the roof of UC Davis Medical Center just minutes before the crash.
    Ishani Desai, Sacbee.com, 7 Oct. 2025
  • It's powered by the fast and efficient S10 chip and boasts tons of health, fitness, and lifestyle features, including GPS workout recording, an ECG, sleep and cycle tracking, music, podcasts, and support for third-party apps.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 7 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • When his estranged daughter Sam tracks him down, in a last-ditch effort to dig her way out of serious trouble, Mickey must choose between rekindling his relationship with his daughter in the face of a terrible tragedy or pursuing a once-in-a-lifetime career opportunity.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Chases are intended to be stopped based on what police policy describes as a continual evaluation of the risks by the pursuing officer.
    David Clarey, jsonline.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Rachel Goldberg-Polin emerged as a moral voice, urging an end to the war and healing for Israel's internal divisions.
    Romina Ruiz-Goiriena, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
  • The city of Evanston, an urban suburb of Chicago, issued a statement warning its residents of impending raids by ICE agents and urging them to report sightings of law enforcement.
    Rebecca Schneid, Time, 4 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The extra graphical features of this re-release (including ray tracing) help sell the 'haunted house' feeling of an empty colony at the center of constant storms.
    Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Burrage led the efforts at Tuba City’s hospital by organizing a comprehensive response, including data collection, contact tracing, community outreach, disease surveillance, testing, vaccination campaigns and staff training.
    Suzette Brewer, Scientific American, 23 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In one video, court security officers were seen escorting the woman from the scene.
    Gloria Pazmino, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Lander was detained in June inside the same building, where the government also operates an immigration court, while escorting a man ICE wanted to arrest.
    David Dee Delgado, USA Today, 19 Sep. 2025

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“Dogging.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dogging. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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