spoored

verb

past tense of spoor
as in pursued

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  1. pursued
  2. ran down
  3. tracked
  4. trailed
  5. killed
  6. captured
  7. dogged
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  • Those priorities overlap with issues Griffin and his investment firm have pursued in Tallahassee.
    — Luisa Yanez, Miami Herald, 24 Oct. 2026
  • The company has pursued efforts to recreate extinct species, including the dodo and woolly mammoth.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of pursued
Verb
  • Models literally ran down the catwalk at times during Adidas’ high-octane show with multiple acts.
    — Stephy Chung, CNN Money, 20 Oct. 2026
  • The documentary came off iPlayer last year after its window ran down.
    — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of ran down
Verb
  • 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
Definition of tracked
Verb
  • Nathan Hayes finished off a 63-yard drive with a 15-yard touchdown pass to Reis Kessell, but Klein's extra-point kick was blocked and the Bison trailed 14-9.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2026
  • That came late in the first half and the Chiefs, who trailed 10-0 at the time, suddenly had the ball with 7 seconds left in the second quarter.
    — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 25 Oct. 2026
Definition of trailed
Verb
  • Two women, ages 50 and 60, were killed and dozens of other people were wounded in a Russian strike on a market in Lozova, in Ukraine's northeastern Kharkiv region, said Oleh Syniehubov, head of the regional military administration.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Samuels was killed just minutes after posting about Wright's abuse on social media.
    — WCCO Staff, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of killed
Verb
  • Since no party has ever captured a parliamentary majority on its own, party leaders must agree to come together in a governing coalition.
    — Giovanna Dell'Orto, Chicago Tribune, 28 Oct. 2026
  • Along the way, the former leaders of the AI trade, captured in the iShares AI Innovation ETF, have collapsed by 35 percentage points relative to the equal-weight S&P 500, then regained half the loss, then gave up most of that bounce.
    — Michael Santoli, CNBC, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of captured
Verb
  • In recent years, sustainable fashion conferences have been dogged by the same sense of frustration.
    — Bella Webb, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Still, Marshall has been dogged by negative headlines over the last month, starting with a debate at the Kansas State Fair where the senator was shouted down by the crowd repeatedly.
    — Stephen Fowler, NPR, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of dogged
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