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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bird-dogs
  1. chases
  2. hunters
  3. tracks
  4. pursues
  5. follows
  6. escorts
  7. dogs
  8. courses
Verb
  • With Blair determined to stop him, while Leighton relentlessly chases his grand vision of creating a perfect world.
    — Jeff Spry, Space.com, 5 Aug. 2026
  • All that guessing will create herding and noise trading as the crowd chases the crowd like a dog chases its tail, in a futile attempt to get ahead of the next unpredictable change in what humors the Big Player.
    — Steve H. Hanke, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of chases
Noun
  • Americans are navigating a labor market with opportunities for some but not for all, sidelining job seekers and leaving many of the youngest job hunters without the foundational roles and skills needed for their futures.
    — Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Over 10 days, hunters scoured locations like Everglades National Forest to remove as many Burmese pythons (Python bivittatus) as possible in an effort to promote ongoing mitigation efforts against the destructive invasive species.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of hunters
Verb
  • The Great Lakes’ piping plover population reached an all-time low of about 13 pairs in the 1980s after habitat loss due to beach development, according to Chicago Piping Plovers, which tracks the birds.
    — Finnegan Belleau, Chicago Tribune, 9 Aug. 2026
  • This measure tracks swings in a broad collection of business output of goods and services, adjusted for inflation.
    — Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 9 Aug. 2026
Definition of tracks
Verb
  • South Korean riser Haeran Ryu pursues her third major win in a row.
    — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 31 July 2026
  • The series starred Abdul-Mateen as aspiring actor Simon Williams, who pursues a role in a remake of the superhero film Wonder Man, with the help of former Hollywood star Trevor Slattery (Sir Ben Kingsley).
    — Julia Moore, PEOPLE, 31 July 2026
Definition of pursues
Verb
  • American mahjong follows rules set by the National Mah Jongg League, which introduces new hand combinations every year.
    — Sian Babish, PEOPLE, 9 Aug. 2026
  • Maryland, like every other state, follows its own specialized accounting rules and definitions.
    — Sheila Weinberg, Baltimore Sun, 9 Aug. 2026
Definition of follows
Verb
  • Once the animal gets close to the staffers, one of the employees carefully picks up the fox and escorts it out of the water and away from the ride.
    — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE, 6 Aug. 2026
  • For a relatively small fee, someone meets you at the aircraft, carries your bags, escorts you through customs in just a few minutes, helps collect your luggage, and takes you directly to your transportation.
    — Doug Gollan, Forbes.com, 26 July 2026
Definition of escorts
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
  • 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
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“Bird-dogs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bird-dogs. Accessed 13 Aug. 2026.

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