bird-dog

In times past, the nation would have learned of the fate of the commonwealth’s senior senator because a bird-dog reporter like Al Cross would have tracked it all down and reported it.

From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2026

Say what you will about his politics; the Tesla Model Y drives like a bird-dog in the hunt.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026

“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

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

"Say, one of Mr. Ferrall's men was here just now—there he is, over there uncrating that there bird-dog!"

From The Fighting Chance by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

“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

The organization will continue to use “the full set of tactics that we have used in the past,” said Prakash, meaning that Sunrise’s bird-dogging and sit-ins probably aren’t going anywhere.

From Slate ● Nov. 28, 2022

A few residents kept a close eye on the mounting crisis, posting news of pipe breaks and photos of filthy water online, as well as bird-dogging local officials.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 16, 2019

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 bird-dogging senators, I worked with one of our ace congressional correspondents, Thomas Kaplan, who honed his skills prying secrets out of the New York State Legislature.

From New York Times ● Aug. 2, 2017

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