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
  • The Sköll is named after the giant wolf who relentlessly chases the sun across the sky in Norse mythology.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 17 Sep. 2026
  • In Norse mythology, Sköll is the name of a giant wolf that chases the sun across the sky.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of chases
Noun
  • For a curate, James was also rather extravagant, keeping a pack of hunters while his wife kept a fashionable carriage.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Oct. 2026
  • The proposal is drawing concern from horseback riders like Simons and hunters, hikers and other outdoor recreationists, as well as tribal groups with treaty rights across the Great Lakes region.
    — Christiana Freitag, Chicago Tribune, 4 Oct. 2026
Definition of hunters
Verb
  • Blow Yourself Up is a love story that tracks the evolution of the internet from toy to utility to hellscape, the core technological advance of our lifetime.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Related Stories The story takes place over four days in December and tracks four women spanning three generations.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of tracks
Verb
  • At first, McConnell backs toward the officers but then runs off, and law enforcement pursues him.
    — Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 6 Oct. 2026
  • The vast majority of people the state pursues for prison liens, however, have even less.
    — Ginny Monk, Hartford Courant, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of pursues
Verb
  • Each episode follows one garden over an extended period, capturing animal behavior rarely witnessed by human eyes – from raising families and defending territories to hunting, courting and surviving the changing seasons.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 5 Oct. 2026
  • Hotels, as well as airports, are perfect places to test this technology because their electricity usage follows quite predictable patterns.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 4 Oct. 2026
Definition of follows
Verb
  • 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
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 9 Oct. 2026.

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