TAGGED ALONG Synonyms: 35 Similar and Opposite Words

tagged along

verb

past tense of tag along

as in tagged

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Anderson was tagged for five runs and seven hits in 4 1/3 innings.

— ABC News, ABC News, 15 Sep. 2026
Anderson was tagged for five runs and seven hits in 4⅓ innings.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2026

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That outlay has brought Marc Cucurella, Robert Sanchez, Moises Caicedo and Joao Pedro to Stamford Bridge, while their latest arrival from the south-coast side, centre-forward Danny Welbeck, was secured for a much more modest £5m this summer.

— Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2026
Pritzker believes the city and state have learned to respond to the tactics that Bovino and his men brought, and those that continue.

— Andrew Carter, Chicago Tribune, 6 Sep. 2026

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After that perfect airport rapprochement, Edwards and I tailed them to Jagger’s chateau near Amboise in the Loire Valley.

— Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2026
Santa, who was heavy and plodding with bad knees, couldn’t keep up as Gayle tailed this man through an alleyway.

— Wilbert L. Cooper, Longreads, 25 Aug. 2026

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The move is the first in a string of major central bank decisions this week, with the Bank of England up next, and followed by the Bank of Japan on Friday.

— Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2026
That study, being conducted by DRC and Doctors Without Borders, will give participants a shot of Ervebo, followed a month later by a shot of an experimental vaccine designed to protect against the Sudan version of the Ebola virus.

— Helen Branswell, STAT, 16 Sep. 2026

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Eighty percent of the instruction, including in math and science, is conducted in Spanish, while 20% is in English.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 16 Sep. 2026
The secretary of state’s office received a complaint about the election and conducted its own investigation, according to the lawsuit.

— Jack Harvel, Kansas City Star, 15 Sep. 2026

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