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spoors

verb

present tense third-person singular of spoor
as in tracks

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for spoors
  1. tracks
  2. trails
  3. courses
  4. runs down
  5. dogs
  6. pursues
  7. traps
  8. kills
Verb
  • The product tracks sleep patterns and measures users’ quality of rest.
    — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
  • About 250 flights were delayed at the airport late afternoon Sunday, according to FlightAware, a website that tracks flight disruptions.
    — Anthony Izaguirre, Chicago Tribune, 6 Sep. 2026
Definition of tracks
Verb
  • Tesla trails self-driving taxi leader Waymo in the number of cabs deployed and trips completed.
    — Bernard Condon, Fortune, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Prolific trails Hussle’s Victory Lap, which remains his highest-charting release on nearly every roster where both projects have appeared.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of trails
Verb
  • What could be a stock campus ice-queen role is subverted throughout the season, through the empathy for the character that courses through her performance.
    — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 27 July 2026
  • The same love of equality and freedom that courses through the Declaration motivated her white great-grandmother to campaign for suffrage and her African American grandfather to found a chapter of the NAACP in the Jim Crow South.
    — Michael Kazin, The Atlantic, 3 June 2026
Definition of courses
Verb
  • Take, for example, the watershed that runs down Clear Creek Canyon below Lookout Mountain, Mount Vernon and Rainbow Hill.
    — Megan Schrader, Denver Post, 27 Aug. 2026
  • The Reds rallied from three runs down in the eighth inning after White Sox starter Sean Burke allowed only one run on three hits in seven innings.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of runs down
Verb
  • This spring, Anthropic let the robot dogs out again, but this time, an improved Claude worked alone.
    — Harry Booth, Time, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Canine transmissible venereal tumor, or CTVT, is a genital cancer that dogs pass to one another during mating.
    — John Drake, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
Definition of dogs
Verb
  • One brother pursues a young woman working in a parlour who is trying to break free of her home life, while the other sinks into drinking and despair as both men struggle to hold onto their dignity in the city’s rougher margins.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 3 Sep. 2026
  • The novel focuses on the antics and escapes of Sebastian Dangerfield, who pursues fun times, ignoring his studies and his family.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of pursues
Verb
  • When a rockslide traps them on a narrow plank 4,000 feet up, Jax must face her fears to survive.
    — Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2026
  • But the heat dome, an area of high pressure that traps warm air beneath it, isn’t just sending temperatures soaring.
    — Tyler Ory, CNN Money, 30 Aug. 2026
Definition of traps
Verb
  • Listeria hits about 1,250 people in the United States each year, according to the CDC, and kills 172.
    — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 7 Sep. 2026
  • Special series An NPR investigation finds that heat kills thousands of Americans every year.
    — Brittney Melton, NPR, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of kills
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“Spoors.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spoors. Accessed 15 Sep. 2026.

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