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as in cheeks
the part of the body upon which someone sits
get your tail in here
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as in to chase
to go after or on the track of
detectives tailed the suspect to see where he was going at that time of the evening
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Recent Examples of tail
Bay Area Weather Report, Mercury News, 19 Oct. 2025
There wasn’t any tailgating at Gillette Stadium Sunday, but there were plenty of wagging tails.
—Boston Herald Staff, Boston Herald, 19 Oct. 2025
Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
Johnson tailed her from Calvary Church to her home that Sunday morning.
—Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 29 Sep. 2025
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Noun
Once stationary, deactivate all lights except the hazard flashers, engage the emergency brake, and release the brake pedal to ensure your tail lights remain unlit, minimizing the chance of other drivers colliding with your stationary vehicle.
—Bay Area Weather Report, Mercury News, 19 Oct. 2025
There wasn’t any tailgating at Gillette Stadium Sunday, but there were plenty of wagging tails.
—Boston Herald Staff, Boston Herald, 19 Oct. 2025
Verb
In Erling Haaland and Gianluigi Donnarumma, Manchester City are top and tailed by arguably the best in their positions in the country.
—Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
Johnson tailed her from Calvary Church to her home that Sunday morning.
—Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 29 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tail
Noun
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The erstwhile president and his entourage got on a jet that flew them to Hmeimim, a coastal air base controlled by Russia, which had been his most critical backer in the war.—
Danny Makki,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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Loro Piana created the attire that Team Europe athletes and their entourages wore during all official events, both on and off the course.—
Luisa Zargani,
Footwear News,
30 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Carpenter rocked her hallmark voluminous blonde curls, finishing the beauty moment with rosy pink cheeks and a matching lipstick.—
Kelsey Stewart,
Footwear News,
19 Oct. 2025
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Her cheeks grew sore from smiling.—
Luca Evans,
Denver Post,
17 Oct. 2025
Noun
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There is growing optimism that the global oil glut—exacerbated by ongoing OPEC production hikes—will peak in the first half of 2026, allowing for the industry to rebound in the back half of next year, CEOs said.—
Jordan Blum,
Fortune,
23 Oct. 2025
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One that’s without obvious world class centre-backs in the absence of Gleison Bremer.—
James Horncastle,
New York Times,
23 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Cavazos says this work — chasing leads or even, at times, following ICE agents — to alert the community can be hard, especially now that the Department of Homeland Security regularly accuses groups like Cavazos' of interfering with their jobs and endangering the lives of immigration officers.—
Marisa Peñaloza,
NPR,
17 Oct. 2025
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In private debt, incentive misalignment can arise if managers prioritize asset growth at all costs, which sometimes leads to chasing thinner spreads or riskier deals.—
Dave Smith,
Fortune,
17 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The Royal Navy crew achieved the major milestone as part of HMS Agamemnon’s ‘trim dive’, a three-day period of testing in the town’s Devonshire Dock to prove the attack vessel’s stability and safety.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
20 Oct. 2025
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The four crew members onboard the plane were sent to local hospitals for medical treatment.—
Chris Lau,
CNN Money,
20 Oct. 2025
Noun
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This is the kind of player that gets people out of their seats.—
Simon Johnson,
New York Times,
23 Oct. 2025
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The director of the Louvre in Paris took the hot seat on Wednesday, answering questions from lawmakers amid mounting criticism over apparent security lapses that enabled thieves to pull off Sunday's brazen daylight heist of more than $100 million in jewels from the museum's ornate Apollo Gallery.—
Bill Hutchinson,
ABC News,
22 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Leny Yoro trailed Minteh having advanced while tracking Joao Pedro, who had also moved into midfield.—
Laurie Whitwell,
New York Times,
23 Oct. 2025
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How a dinosaur becomes a ‘mummy’ To gain a better understanding of the creature, a team at the University of Chicago led by anatomist Paul Sereno tracked down the historical locations of previous dinosaur finds in east central Wyoming.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
23 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Bill got his second deer, and hurt his bum knee while packing out the animal.—
Marguerite Reiss,
Outdoor Life,
9 Oct. 2025
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Cora planned for his players to test the right fielder’s bum elbow — the Red Sox always attack pinstriped vulnerabilities on the basepaths — and sure enough Nick Sogard turned a single into a double in the seventh because Judge can’t throw the ball.—
Ian O'Connor,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2025
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“Tail.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tail. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.
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