TRACKED Synonyms: 50 Similar and Opposite Words

tracked

verb

Definition of tracked

past tense of track

as in chased

to go after or on the track of predators stealthily tracking their prey

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as in traversed

to make one's way through, across, or over once upon a time, millions of buffalo tracked the wide open plains

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Recent Examples of tracked Consumers’ expectations about the pace of future price hikes are closely tracked by the Federal Reserve. — Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2026 Using a form of spectroscopy, the team then tracked changes in the electrons' energies over trillionths of a second. — Sven Badoux, New Atlas, 23 Oct. 2026 Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health tracked nearly 1,000 adults age 65 and older who showed no signs of memory or thinking problems when the study began in 2013. — Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2026 But he had been tracked and trained for years by the Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula 1 team, after tearing up go-kart tracks as a boy. — Sam Knight, New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2026 Sacramento police confirmed the theft, canvassed neighborhoods and tracked leads as Old North Sacramento grieved its loss. — Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 22 Oct. 2026 The same room displays the pair of thick ledgers that tracked a five-year contract to build two bronze cannons, dangerously lacking from Siena’s defenses. — Blake Gopnik, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2026 The researchers also tracked a blood marker of mitochondrial stress. — Will Stone, NPR, 21 Oct. 2026 Engagement is often seen as a metric about sentiment that can be measured and tracked, but is treated as something employees bring—or fail to bring—to their jobs. — Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for tracked

Verb

She has just been released from rehab after falling off the wagon and spends much of her day either sleeping or recovering from bad dreams of being chased by Nazis.

— Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2026
But the right-hander was tagged by Jake Bauer's two-run double in the fourth and David Hamilton's RBI single that chased Glasnow in the fifth and left Milwaukee trailing 4-3.

— ABC News, ABC News, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of chased

Verb

According to Clarksons, 36 percent of container capacity routed via the canal or the Cape of Good Hope traversed the Suez in early October, up from 8 percent between 2024 and mid-2026.

— Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 14 Oct. 2026
Concerns over driverless robotaxis, such as the Waymo vehicles that have traversed the Atlanta streets since last year, are also reasonable.

— Doug Turnbull, AJC.com, 11 Oct. 2026

Definition of traversed

Verb

Netanyahu’s wager, according to these critics, was that the aid would give Hamas something to lose and would therefore help contain the group while Israel pursued normalization with the Arab world without resolving the Palestinian question.

— Eric Cortellessa, Time, 18 Oct. 2026
Bambu Lab has introduced its Vortek nozzle-changing system, while Prusa has pursued multi-toolhead designs.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of pursued

Verb

Electricity costs rank first, followed by water usage and environmental impact.

— Will Johnson, Time, 21 Oct. 2026
Billie Joe Armstrong followed Dangerfield on Instagram, and the two struck up a friendship that led to the Paradox opening for Green Day on the Atlanta stop of its Saviors Tour.

— Christine Terrisse, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of followed

Verb

The ministry said that 134 of 135 contacts of the original patient have been traced and quarantined and the risk to the general public remains low.

— ABC News, ABC News, 21 Oct. 2026
The directors traced the idea back to long taxi rides home after meetings around the city.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of traced

Verb

Scores of drones have crossed into Romanian airspace over the past two years, with officials attributing many of the incursions to Russia.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 18 Oct. 2026
Twenty-six seconds earlier, Nicole Shelton of Morristown, New Jersey, had crossed the finish line with little fanfare.

— Vivian Yao, Baltimore Sun, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of crossed

Verb

On arrival, we were escorted across a wooden bridge to the famous ornate jewel-laden golden door.

— Kate Berlant, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Oct. 2026
Mounted cavalry units escorted Carney's vehicle to the sprawling Turkish presidential compound, where a welcoming ceremony was held.

— ABC News, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of escorted

Verb

The two dated through their senior year, then navigated long distance through college and starting jobs in different cities.

— Shelby Wax, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2026
Like anyone who has navigated the music industry for more than two decades, Larsson has felt the ebbs and flows of success.

— Remy Rippon, Glamour, 22 Oct. 2026