TAG ALONG Synonyms: 36 Similar and Opposite Words

tag along

verb

Definition of tag along

as in to hang (around)

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Recent Examples of tag along That was the case when NPR's Natalie Escobar and Ava Berger were sent on the road to tag along with three teenage boys competing in the World Series of Birding. — Ava Berger, NPR, 13 June 2026 Balken and the only other two full-time staff members at the Glen Canyon Institute were leading the first formal trip of the organization’s Community Science Initiative (and allowed a Denver Post reporter and photographer to tag along). — Elise Schmelzer, Denver Post, 7 June 2026 The coach invited Iheanachor to tag along. — Mike Defabo, New York Times, 1 June 2026 The twins also tagged along to hospital staff events and charity walks, learning the rhythms of a place that would later become their workplace. — Nancy Badertscher, AJC.com, 6 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for tag along

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The quick-thinking worker tailed Morales to the suspect’s NYCHA apartment building on Amsterdam Ave.

— Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 25 July 2026
Keirin cycling involves riders tailing behind a pace bike which gradually increases its speed over three circuits of a velodrome.

— Gabrielle Rockson, PEOPLE, 21 July 2026

Definition of tail

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Fawaz briefly brought me up to date on Singer’s story, which stretches back to 2008 when founder Rob Dickinson started working on his own 1969 Porsche 911E in Los Angeles.

— Michael Teo Van Runkle, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
Others stood still, hoping that patience would bring a butterfly close enough to touch.

— Sophia Buonpane, Kansas City Star, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of bring

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Over the past several months, Ternus has been shadowing Cook and helping lead executive meetings.

— Bloomberg, Mercury News, 4 Aug. 2026
The Securities Appellate Tribunal set aside that order that October, but the scrutiny continued to shadow Zee’s proposed $10 billion merger with Sony Pictures Networks India, which collapsed in January 2024.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of shadow

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Policy overlap Federal policies enacted in 2022 aimed to steer clean-energy investments toward communities impacted by coal plant closures, yet data centers are inheriting these sites instead.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 3 Aug. 2026
Meanwhile, Warner has spent three years steering free cash flow toward the debt left by the 2022 Discovery merger, and Paramount has been consumed with digesting Skydance.

— Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2026

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