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noun

as in tracking

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verb

present participle of tag along

as in hanging (around)

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Noun

The Fitbit Air is a budget-friendly, screen-free band focused primarily on health tracking, comfort, and long battery life.

— Andrew Gebhart, PC Magazine, 12 Oct. 2026
Chris Diaz, director of legislative tracking at the Voting Rights Lab, said the group has seen several versions of the Republican president’s proposals passed by his allies in the states.

— Gary Fields, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of tracking

Noun

But in the second half, and with the Seahawks trailing, Fleury opened up the offense, much to the team’s benefit.

— Andrew Destin, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2026
Van Dam said the Dutch were surprised to win the right to host the Solheim Cup, with golf trailing well behind in the list of most popular sports in the Netherlands fronted by soccer, tennis and field hockey.

— ABC News, ABC News, 7 Sep. 2026

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Noun

In the 1970s, researchers developed another version of applying color to the brain called anterograde and retrograde tracing.

— Kimberlee D'Ardenne, The Conversation, 5 Oct. 2026
Finding people at high risk of incubating the Bundibugyo virus, also known as contact tracing, has proved difficult in Congo.

— CONSTANT SAME BAGALWA, Arkansas Online, 4 Oct. 2026

Definition of tracing

Noun

The Project’s ranks now include about 80 fishermen manning 15 boats who also support the tagging and research of their erstwhile prey (their work has led to the recent world-first tagging of 10 tiger sharks in Indonesian waters).

— Juliet Kinsman, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Sep. 2026
DeKalb County Schools wants the exterior stop-arm cameras with multi-angle video, license-plate recognition, GPS tagging, and automatic activation when the stop arm/red lights are engaged.

— Rashad Williams, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of tagging

Noun

Gallium from gold waste Gold mine tailings are fine, sand-like waste materials which are usually left behind after gold and other valuable minerals are extracted from ore.

— Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 9 Oct. 2026
Still, the tungsten from those tailings — in a sense, the mine’s low-hanging fruit — could be ready for sale as soon as early 2027, Haji said.

— Sarah Cutler, Idaho Statesman, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of tailing

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The main character home is less a style than a filter, and the homeowners who apply it earliest will spend less on trend-chasing over the next few years than those who wait for the pendulum to swing again.

— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Sacbee.com, 23 Sep. 2026
In the past, his adrenalin-chasing has sometimes come at the expense of less extroverted passages.

— Justin Davidson, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of chasing

Noun

Every new hiring manager goes through mandatory shadowing to learn interviewing, selling the company and role, critically evaluating candidates and giving rejections.

— Forbes Business Council, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2026
Students are able to participate in industry field trips, job shadowing, career mentoring, mock interviewing, and potential internship or externship opportunities.

— Brett Barrouquere, Arkansas Online, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of shadowing

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