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Recent Examples of spoor
Noun
Over the past 35 years, he’s produced three guides to tracking that describe animal habits and habitats and how to interpret tracks and spoor.—Bydimitri Selibas, science.org, 13 June 2024 Volcanoes some distance away from here left behind some sturdy volcanic rock, but also this spoor of volcanic ash that drifted underwater before the PV Peninsula became itself.—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2024 On Twitter, people speak scoffingly of canceling themselves, as a joke or a pre-emptive measure, since presumably any of us could be canceled at any time, living in our glass Instagrams, leaving a spoor of digitized gaffes behind us.—New York Times, 3 Dec. 2020 Snow had fallen less than an hour ago, and this spoor is on top of it.—Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 17 Jan. 2020 The previous method used spoor (paw prints, also called pugmarks, and scat), which often led to the same animal being counted multiple times.—National Geographic, 20 Apr. 2016 On top goes chaat masala, a collage of spices haunted by the smoky spoor of black salt; amchur, tart green mango powder; and asafetida, with its faint evocation of meat.—Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2016
When not elbow-deep in dino dung or outrunning raptors, Laura Dern's heartfelt performance in Jurassic Park shows why women really deserve to inherit the Earth — and all of the acting awards.
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Huntley Woods,
EW.com,
1 July 2025
Rodent dung found on pet food shelves at a Fort Lauderdale Family Dollar
951 Sunrise Blvd., Fort Lauderdale
Inspector Timothy O’Neil slapped a Stop-Use Order on the pet food aisle of the Fort Lauderdale store at 951 Sunrise Blvd.
Short-nosed breeds, like pugs and shih tzus, don't tolerate the heat and humidity because the shape of their faces don't allow for efficient panting to cool themselves, per PetMD.
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Chad Murphy,
The Enquirer,
2 July 2025
Examples of this include Labrador retrievers, Shetland sheepdogs, pugs and basset hounds.
The guests’ blood was swiftly coursing with deadly amatoxin, a poison produced by the death cap mushrooms known to sprout under the oak trees of Victoria.
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Preston Fore,
Fortune,
7 July 2025
As the six boaters set out on the road beside Fairview Dam in late June, about three-fourths of the river’s flow was being diverted into a tunnel and coursing through pipelines that snake along the steep-sided canyon to Southern California Edison’s Kern River No. 3 hydropower plant.
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Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
6 July 2025
But the question of the Tour dogged his entire career.
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Jacob Whitehead,
New York Times,
8 July 2025
Netanyahu's outwardly triumphant visit to the White House, his third this year, is dogged by Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza and questions over how hard Trump will push for an end to the conflict.
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arkansasonline.com,
arkansasonline.com,
8 July 2025
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