bird-dog
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“It took three and a half years of weekly protests outside her office. Plus, we also had a bird-dog campaign against her. Every time we’d find out where she was, we’d go,” Abdullah explained.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2022
Now that we know how the show works, it's easy to bird-dog the secrets hiding in plain sight.
From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2022
The initial park-heavy, public-ownership vision for the property has, for the most part, been abandoned, although activists continue to bird-dog the development piece by piece as it comes up for permit review.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 6, 2018
Everytown also plans to send allies to bird-dog, or publicly question, targeted members of Congress at public events during the upcoming break.
From Time ● Jun. 23, 2016
That very night Doc Turner called at the house of Billy Whipple to ask where he could get a good bird-dog, young Whipple being known as a gifted amateur in dogs.
From Young Wallingford by George Randolph Chester
“Politicians aren’t ignoring us anymore, and it’s because we agitated, we organized, and we bird-dogged these politicians every place they were.”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 9, 2021
Television crews bird-dogged passing senators with questions and quips.
From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2017
They bird-dogged public hearings and visited Chambers of Commerce and Lions and Rotary Clubs, putting 200,000 miles on their truck.
From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2011
Over New Year's, they bird-dogged a line of student demonstrators on a four-day, 75-mile protest walk from Belfast to Londonderry.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dan Friesen, co-host of the podcast Knowledge Fight, has been valiantly bird-dogging Jones for years.
From Slate ● Aug. 8, 2022
When they did make contact, they deployed a strategy known as bird-dogging, asking pointed questions about how a senator would be voting.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 6, 2018
In these, he is inventively abetted by Marc Spicer’s bird-dogging camera, which noses around closet doors and into cellar corners with shivery curiosity.
From New York Times ● Jul. 21, 2016
His campaign has beefed up a team dedicated to bird-dogging the arcane state-by-state process of selecting delegates — which Trump is struggling to navigate — assigning each delegate to a dedicated campaign staffer for support.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 13, 2016
He's hand in glove with McCaffery and that blonde is bird-dogging him around town and pointing out McCaffery's enemies.
From "And That's How It Was, Officer" by Ralph Sholto
