TAGGING ALONG Synonyms: 50 Similar and Opposite Words

tagging along 1 of 2

noun

as in tracking

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tagging along

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verb

present participle of tag along

as in hanging (around)

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Noun

Opta tracking data shows the scale of the work Haaland does between touches.

— Amelie Claydon, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2026
Real-time eye tracking helps JASPER respond as the eye moves during surgery.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of tracking

Noun

Its leading edge sweeps back 37 degrees, with a 28-degree sweep along the trailing edge.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 18 Aug. 2026
To achieve this, the wings need a very high aspect ratio, which is, to put it very simply, the ratio between a wing's span and its average width from its leading edge to its trailing edge.

— David Szondy August 04, New Atlas, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of trailing

Noun

But contact tracing has been especially difficult, with 60% to 70% of new cases detected among people who weren't already being monitored, meaning infected people can spread the virus before health workers know to follow them.

— ABC News, ABC News, 19 Aug. 2026
Conahan was arrested in February 1997, accused of raping Montgomery, strangling him and cutting off his genitals to eliminate DNA tracing.

— CBS Miami Team, CBS News, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of tracing

Noun

Upon discovering the tagging, staff and equipment were mobilized to remove the markings from the municipal sidewalks through cleaning and power washing, the statement says.

— Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 15 Aug. 2026
Teams working with agencies or freelancers can make identification of synthetic elements a delivery requirement and allocate tagging responsibility and liability in the contract.

— Gabriel Alin Zainescu, Forbes.com, 25 July 2026

Definition of tagging

Noun

These include platinum-group metals found in spent automotive catalysts and potentially critical elements present in mine tailings and other complex waste streams.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 14 Aug. 2026
What starts as harmless tailing quickly evolves into something much more dangerous — Bret’s high-speed pursuit isn’t subtle, and Robert turns the tables on him by pulling over and then tapping Bret’s Mercedes 450SL from behind.

— Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of tailing

Noun

Those memories of Keegan chasing, Keegan scoring, Keegan leading 1970s Liverpool across England and Europe to trophy upon trophy were clattered by 2026 reports of his illness and death.

— Michael Walker, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2026
Perhaps that is part of why eclipse chasing becomes so addictive.

— Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of chasing

Noun

While the University of Michigan is not the first university to experiment with grade covering or shadowing, the practice has never caught on at many campuses.

— Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
That gradually began to change over a few hours of Colquitt’s patient mending, shadowing, blushing, and eyelash-affixing.

— John Semley, Harpers Magazine, 28 July 2026

Definition of shadowing

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