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as in pursuit
the act of going after or in the tracks of another the detectives' trailing of the suspect led them to the stolen merchandise

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verb

present participle of trail

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Recent Examples of trailing
Verb
Mosley finished as the runner-up for NBA Coach of the Year last season, trailing only Oklahoma City’s Mark Daigneault. Josh Robbins, The Athletic, 24 Dec. 2024 Then with 47 seconds left, trailing 106-104, Curry dribbled into a stepback 3 from the left corner for the lead. Anthony Slater, The Athletic, 24 Dec. 2024 The Dow Jones Industrial Average, with a trailing price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 27, and the S&P 500 Index’s P/E at 24, are both distorted by tech stocks, such as Nvidia (NVDA). Lawrence Carrel, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024 As with Bigsby, Spears is game script dependent, but Spears’ script is when trailing and needing to pass more. Jake Ciely, The Athletic, 24 Dec. 2024 Tangent Palantir is 2024’s third-best performing stock of any public company worth at least $50 billion regardless of S&P status, trailing only marketing software firm Applovin (756% gain) and bitcoin hoarder MicroStrategy (477%). Derek Saul, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024 At its current levels of $13, RUM stock is trading at 31x trailing revenues, which seems to be high. Trefis Team, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024 Palantir is by far the most expensive stock on the S&P by its price-to-sales ratio, a metric comparing companies’ trailing 12-month revenues to its market value. Derek Saul, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024 On Saturday, Moe Wagner suffered a knee injury and the Magic, trailing by 22 points at the end of the third quarter, rallied to beat the Miami Heat, outscoring the Heat 37-8 in the final quarter. Josh Robbins, The Athletic, 24 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for trailing
Noun
  • The announcement from Trump comes after officials from Russia and Ukraine met in Istanbul, Turkey, on Friday to hold direct talks about the pursuit of peace.
    Rebecca Schneid, Time, 17 May 2025
  • Rayburn partners up with local sheriff Alice Gustafson (Annabelle Wallis) in a somber yet tumultuous pursuit of a killer who uses brutal traps and primal tactics.
    Travis Bean, Forbes.com, 17 May 2025
Noun
  • Eric Church’s New Album Debuts In its first full tracking frame, Evangeline Vs.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
  • These measurements are tracked by Billboard and Luminate, and cover the data tracking eligibility period of March 22, 2024, through March 20, 2025.
    Paul Grein, Billboard, 15 May 2025
Verb
  • Nebraska is all in on pursuing Millard South tight end Isaac Jensen.
    Mitch Sherman, The Athletic, 31 Dec. 2024
  • Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic listed eight teams pursuing Santana and the Twins weren’t one of them, which isn’t shocking.
    Aaron Gleeman, The Athletic, 30 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Genetic tracing of market wildlife and viruses at the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic Before joining Discover Magazine, Paul Smaglik spent over 20 years as a science journalist, specializing in U.S. life science policy and global scientific career issues.
    Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 7 May 2025
  • And its tracing of spatial distributions emerges from spying enormous bubblelike arrangements of galaxies thought to have formed from more primordial templates, called baryon acoustic oscillations (BAOs).
    Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 30 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Major stock markets in Asia and Europe rose today in trading following the announcement of electronics exemptions.
    Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 14 Apr. 2025
  • What To Know In a clip shared to X, formerly Twitter, McIlroy embraces his wife following his victory.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Scandium can be extracted from mine tailings, or as a by-product of mining for uranium or other metals.
    Bloomberg, Mercury News, 17 Apr. 2025
  • That includes decommissioning many miles of logging roads, removing mine tailings and sowing tens of thousands of native plants.
    Alyssa Kreikemeier, The Conversation, 28 Mar. 2025

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“Trailing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trailing. Accessed 21 May. 2025.

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