tailed

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All told, Boyd tailed Spivey for about 9 miles, much of it at high speed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

However, traffic tailed off the second half of the year, with the L.A. port expecting a single-digit decline in volume this year before Friday’s decision.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2026

Sauropods were long necked, long tailed plant eaters that grew into the largest animals ever to walk on land, yet their earliest life stages were small, exposed, and highly vulnerable.

From Science Daily • Feb. 1, 2026

A retinue assembled to escort the workers out of the closet, into their cars, and back home, without being tailed, without being detained.

From Slate • Oct. 27, 2025

Then he tailed us from the sanctuary, too afraid of Anastasia to present himself but coming as close as he’d dared.

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer