spoored

past tense of spoor

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for spoored
Verb
  • While Alexander-Arnold’s signing had been pursued by the club since last year, Alonso’s conviction and insistence were key in landing Huijsen, Carreras and Mastantuono.
    James McNicholas, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • While traveling with a driver and bodyguard, their car, pursued by paparazzi, crashed into a support column, flipped and landed in front of oncoming traffic.
    Kelsie Gibson, PEOPLE, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The dress also featured bold colorblocking, with a white collar and front placket that ran down the dress to the waistline.
    Julia Teti, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Cass said the preliminary information indicates that the victims and his friends ran down the street after banging on the suspect's door.
    Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Nature meets medical robotics This innovative approach allows the microrobots to be tracked in real time and steered accurately within a life-sized anatomical model, marking a breakthrough in medical microrobotics.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 5 Sep. 2025
  • In the study, researchers tracked 12,772 adults averaging 52 years old for an eight-year period.
    Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Marable then came up with a fumble recovery to thwart a Red Oak drive as the Cougars trailed 20-18 at intermission.
    Mike Waters, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The Padres trailed by two runs in what had been a more lopsided game; in the top of the third, starting pitcher Nestor Cortes, who allowed a leadoff home run to begin the afternoon, surrendered back-to-back-to-back homers for the second time this season.
    Dennis Lin, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • André Marques was killed when the tram derailed during evening rush hour in Lisbon, Portugal and went careening into a building, Sitra (Transport Workers' Union) announced this afternoon.
    Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
  • No children were among the 15 killed.
    Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Whistleblower allegations and production quality concerns have dogged the company, but Grant noted that Boeing has introduced improvements that airlines are beginning to see firsthand.
    Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Lower Basin states, including Arizona, have put forward a new concept, but that plan has run into many of the same conflicts that dogged the Lower Basin’s previous proposal.
    Austin Corona, AZCentral.com, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The permit applications showed oil companies requested to flare or vent more than 195 billion cubic feet of natural gas per year, enough to power more than 3 million homes and generate millions of dollars of tax revenue had the gas been captured.
    ProPublica, ProPublica, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The 36-year-old first captured the 115-pound belt in August 2019 in her fourth fight with the UFC.
    Trent Reinsmith, Forbes.com, 4 Sep. 2025
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“Spoored.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spoored. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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