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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Mortgage interest rates are climbing faster than a squirrel scaling a tree after my dog chases it.

— Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 3 Oct. 2026
Be the man who chases, not the man who laughs with the group.

— Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of chases

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Kevin Roose, co-host of the upcoming NPR podcast Machine Gods, formerly The New York Times' Hard Fork, tracks the handful of characters racing to make AI a commercial reality.

— Cooper Katz McKim, NPR, 16 Oct. 2026
Tracking illness in Colorado Colorado tracks flu and other respiratory illnesses year-round.

— Jennifer McRae, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of tracks

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The recruitment gains come as the Coast Guard pursues a modernization initiative known as Force Design.

— Michael Sinkewicz , Kelsie Cairns, FOXNews.com, 8 Oct. 2026
Companies that previously touted the regulator’s strength have bristled as the agency now pursues policies specific to prediction markets.

— Dan Bernstein, Sportico.com, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of pursues

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The incident follows a spate of drone attacks on at least seven cargo vessels off the Black Sea coasts of NATO members Romania and Bulgaria in October.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 18 Oct. 2026
The film follows a Polish burglar who assumes the identity of a dead stranger’s girlfriend, with unexpected results.

— Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 18 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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