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as in track

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Noun

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 Snow had fallen less than an hour ago, and this spoor is on top of it. — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 17 Jan. 2020 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 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

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Noun

Think of Goodwood as if The Quail, A Motorsport Gathering had a race track running through it, to provide a sense of enthusiasm and spectacle missing at many of the park and show events that make up Monterey Car Week.

— Michael Teo Van Runkle, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
Analysts from the likes of the Metzler Bank in Frankfurt, Bloomberg and JP Morgan reasoned that shareholders could have been disappointed that Puma didn’t adjust its guidance upward, as the company appeared to be on the right track with its reset.

— Cathrin Schaer, Footwear News, 31 July 2026

Definition of track

Noun

Behind the cookline equipment, the rodent dung shared space with 20 dead roaches.

— David J. Neal July 24, Miami Herald, 24 July 2026
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.

— Huntley Woods, Entertainment Weekly, 11 June 2026

Definition of dung

Verb

Roughly 90% of foreign-exchange transactions involve the dollar; the alternatives — gold, Treasuries, the euro — trail far behind.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 30 July 2026
Chicago trailed 4-1 in the eighth before Sam Antonacci and Munetaka Murakami hit consecutive homers off Paul Blackburn to tie it.

— CBS News, CBS News, 30 July 2026

Definition of trail

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Amaroq Weiss, senior wolf advocate at the Center for Biological Diversity, questioned the methodology, saying researchers collected scat only along roads and trails while excluding brushy areas where wolves may eat smaller prey.

— Scott Lebar. Story produced with AI assistance, Sacbee.com, 15 July 2026
Promising new studies are beginning to identify what cats eat by analyzing the DNA found in their stomachs and scat.

— Christopher A. Lepczyk, The Conversation, 8 July 2026

Definition of scat

Verb

Van der Poel delivered the superhuman and curled up like a baby, suffering coursing through every nerve end.

— Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 28 July 2026
Rolling out micro feedback opportunities creates a rhythm of sharing information which allows leadership and the core change team to course correct the strategic roadmap quickly.

— Kate Wieczorek, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026

Definition of course

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Realizing they are being had, Cubans respond to their government on the chat with emojis of excrement or the US flag.

— Patrick Oppmann, CNN Money, 15 July 2026
The intense, carrion-like odor of the slime attracts insects, which then eat the slime and excrete it, with the spores later germinating in the excrement.

— Leah Hudson, Popular Science, 9 July 2026

Definition of excrement

Verb

But his absence Thursday again raises questions about his durability — questions that have dogged him since his rookie year of 2022.

— Barry Svrluga, New York Times, 31 July 2026
Meanwhile, as dogged as the characters are in pursuing questions of who and how, the show is rather less interested in reflecting on what any of it means in a bigger-picture sense.

— Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 30 July 2026

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