spoors

verb

present tense third-person singular of spoor
as in tracks

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for spoors
  1. tracks
  2. trails
  3. courses
  4. runs down
  5. dogs
  6. pursues
  7. traps
  8. kills
Verb
  • The rise lifted some components of the index into overbought territory, as measured by the relative strength index (RSI), a momentum indicator that tracks the speed and size of price changes.
    — Tobias Burns, CNBC, 29 Aug. 2026
  • Activity Rings monitor daily movement, exercise, and standing goals, while the optical sensor tracks heart rate throughout the day.
    — StackCommerce Team, PC Magazine, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of tracks
Verb
  • Prolific trails Hussle’s Victory Lap, which remains his highest-charting release on nearly every roster where both projects have appeared.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026
  • New York trails first-place Tampa Bay by four games in the AL East and leads Boston by two for the top American League wild card.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of trails
Verb
  • 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
Definition of courses
Verb
  • Take, for example, the watershed that runs down Clear Creek Canyon below Lookout Mountain, Mount Vernon and Rainbow Hill.
    — Megan Schrader, Denver Post, 27 Aug. 2026
  • The Reds rallied from three runs down in the eighth inning after White Sox starter Sean Burke allowed only one run on three hits in seven innings.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of runs down
Verb
  • This spring, Anthropic let the robot dogs out again, but this time, an improved Claude worked alone.
    — Harry Booth, Time, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Canine transmissible venereal tumor, or CTVT, is a genital cancer that dogs pass to one another during mating.
    — John Drake, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
Definition of dogs
Verb
  • One brother pursues a young woman working in a parlour who is trying to break free of her home life, while the other sinks into drinking and despair as both men struggle to hold onto their dignity in the city’s rougher margins.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Around them, an aristocratic winemaker defines his legacy, a legendary maître d’hôtel seeks his heir, and a reverent wine critic pursues the sublime.
    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of pursues
Verb
  • But the heat dome, an area of high pressure that traps warm air beneath it, isn’t just sending temperatures soaring.
    — Tyler Ory, CNN Money, 30 Aug. 2026
  • Nestling them together traps enough steam to help the interiors soften before the potatoes shrink slightly, giving them room to brown.
    — Rick Martinez, Bon Appetit Magazine, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of traps
Verb
  • Because the coating stops being an insulator when its breakdown threshold is reached, the charge rips through it in a miniature dielectric breakdown, the same failure mode that kills capacitors and transformer insulation.
    — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 31 Aug. 2026
  • The forest feels healthy even though it is pockmarked with dead standing beetle kills.
    — Megan Schrader, Denver Post, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of kills
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“Spoors.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spoors. Accessed 5 Sep. 2026.

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