as in pursuit
the act of going after or in the tracks of another
took a class in the tracking of game that the hunters' association offers
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as in chasing
to go after or on the track of
predators stealthily tracking their prey
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as in traversing
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 tracking
Jason Phillips, USA Today, 27 Feb. 2026
The same Hawk-Eye tracking technology that feeds MLB’s Statcast is bringing strike zone judgment into the 21st century.
—Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Feb. 2026
Lucia I Suarez Sang, CBS News, 1 Mar. 2026
Heading into Tuesday’s primary elections, the cost of advertising and reserved advertising time had topped $110 million, the most ever for a Senate primary, according to the ad-tracking firm AdImpact.
—ABC News, 1 Mar. 2026
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Noun
Once a songwriter approves the submission, the platform can automatically handle file delivery, invoicing, and payment tracking, all with human verification by Stone Rolla’s publishing team.
—Jason Phillips, USA Today, 27 Feb. 2026
The same Hawk-Eye tracking technology that feeds MLB’s Statcast is bringing strike zone judgment into the 21st century.
—Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Feb. 2026
Verb
The New York Times was the first to report on the CIA's involvement in tracking Khamenei before his death.
—Lucia I Suarez Sang, CBS News, 1 Mar. 2026
Heading into Tuesday’s primary elections, the cost of advertising and reserved advertising time had topped $110 million, the most ever for a Senate primary, according to the ad-tracking firm AdImpact.
—ABC News, 1 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tracking
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For Lee, trusting his hair, makeup and costume team to get kabuki’s aesthetics exactly right freed him to focus on the drama — and on the film’s central question of what an artist is willing to sacrifice in the lifelong pursuit of beauty.—
Patrick Brzeski,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Mar. 2026
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Setting off in pursuit was José María Zuloaga, a taciturn lieutenant colonel in the Mexican army supported by a band of irregulars.—
Carolina A. Miranda,
The Atlantic,
5 Mar. 2026
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There was an undercurrent of confidence across the collections, where designers weren’t chasing spectacle, but instead refining their codes and pushing them forward in thoughtful ways.—
Samantha Conti,
Footwear News,
2 Mar. 2026
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Instead of chasing truth, the writer chases validation.—
JD Barker,
Rolling Stone,
2 Mar. 2026
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With commercial truck builds that are bigger than average cars, difficulty halting, and limited maneuvering, these factors can make traversing construction zones riskier for commercial truck drivers.—
Wyles Daniel,
USA TODAY,
27 Feb. 2026
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Further north on the East Wall is another series of steeps that is reached by traversing from the East Wall Gate, which is below the North Pole Gate.—
John Meyer,
Denver Post,
26 Feb. 2026
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The health department will also receive support from about a dozen entry-level epidemiologists provided by the CDC Foundation, an independent nonprofit that helps support the agency’s mission, who will increase capacity for case investigation, contact tracing and data management for a few months.—
Deidre McPhillips,
CNN Money,
27 Feb. 2026
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The delicate structure of a gill, or the faint tracing of a nerve pathway — features that existed in living animals more than half a billion years ago — preserved with enough clarity for scientists to study them today.—
Hanna Wickes,
Charlotte Observer,
27 Feb. 2026
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Husso, who stopped 16 shots in the first period and 13 in both the second and third, had a timely performance amid speculation the Ducks are pursuing a backup goalie behind Lukas Dostal before Friday’s trade deadline.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Mar. 2026
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Our first attempt at pursuing this logical path was the Drake Equation, which had, as its final term, the lifetime of an average intelligent, technologically advanced civilization.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
4 Mar. 2026
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Whether in the cabin of a long-haul flight, on a research vessel in the middle of the Atlantic, or in a vehicle crossing a remote desert, travelers can expect a future of uninterrupted, gigabit-level internet that follows them across every horizon.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Mar. 2026
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The man, identified as 33-year-old Wisconsin resident James Douglas McMillan, was crossing through the Sierra Blanca checkpoint – a remote Border Patrol station about 90 miles east of El Paso – when a Border Patrol drug K-9 alerted to his car, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.—
Elizabeth Wolfe,
CNN Money,
4 Mar. 2026
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Off-White, following a show in New York last season, will make its return to the Paris calendar on March 5.—
Laure Guilbault,
Vogue,
2 Mar. 2026
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Despite dominating possession, the defending MLS champions trailed 2-0 at halftime following a 3-0 shutout in the MLS season opener at LAFC last weekend.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
2 Mar. 2026
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As consumers are also navigating affordability issues, Wadford said a monthly gym membership is a lot cheaper than going out every single week.—
Betty Lin-Fisher,
USA Today,
5 Mar. 2026
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More clips of Infiniti as Agnes are shown navigating life within Gilead and coming to terms about what lies within the walls of Gilead's borders.—
Angeline Jane Bernabe,
ABC News,
5 Mar. 2026
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“Tracking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tracking. Accessed 6 Mar. 2026.
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