BIRD DOGS Synonyms: 55 Similar and Opposite Words

bird-dogs 1 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of bird-dog

as in chases

to go after or on the track of suspecting infidelity, he hired a private detective to bird-dog his wife

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bird dogs

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noun

plural of bird dog

as in sled dogs

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Verb

Six such accounts make up the series as Hojo chases the truth behind them.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 21 Oct. 2026
For anyone who grinds fresh every morning and chases single-origin lots, online talk about mold and mycotoxins in coffee tends to raise a practical question about how the stuff gets onto beans in the first place.

— Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of chases

Noun

Officials said hunters should watch for signs of infection, including visible maggots in wounds, foul-smelling injuries and animals that appear weak or distressed.

— Kierra Frazier, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026
While these elephants did not deliberately evolve a defense against hunters, tusklessness provided a survival benefit.

— Alida de Flamingh, The Conversation, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of hunters

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The Wesleyan Media Project, a group of experts that tracks political propaganda in campaigns, identified at least 220 ads produced or enhanced with artificial intelligence by candidates or political action committees this election cycle.

— Anagilmara Vílchez, NBC news, 23 Oct. 2026
As of Friday morning, nearly 21 million Americans have already cast ballots in the midterm elections, according to the University of Florida's Election Lab, which tracks voting by mail and in person.

— A Martínez, NPR, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of tracks

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That output would provide substantial manufacturing capacity as the company pursues a higher flight rate.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026
Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare, a Democrat, expressed concern over surveillance footage that shows Parra Hernandez and another person jumping out of a white truck and running as a dark SUV pursues them.

— ABC News, ABC News, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of pursues

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October’s full moon follows September’s harvest moon, which marked when farmers would typically harvest their crops.

— Dharma Niles, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2026
The orbit decides what follows In low Earth orbit, satellites encounter traces of the atmosphere.

— Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of follows

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Entry has been moved to the garden, where you’re greeted by a hostess who escorts you into an antechamber with a bar, and you’re invited to order a pre-dinner cocktail.

— Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 25 Sep. 2026
Elsewhere, La’an escorts the one person who can save Spock via a cloned heart transplant, Sybok, Spock’s half-brother (though by all appearances his twin since he’s played by Ethan Peck).

— Keith Phipps, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of escorts

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What could be a stock campus ice-queen role is subverted throughout the season, through the empathy for the character that courses through her performance.

— Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 27 July 2026
The same love of equality and freedom that courses through the Declaration motivated her white great-grandmother to campaign for suffrage and her African American grandfather to found a chapter of the NAACP in the Jim Crow South.

— Michael Kazin, The Atlantic, 3 June 2026

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