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Recent Examples of spoor
Noun
Over the past 35 years, he’s produced three guides to tracking that describe animal habits and habitats and how to interpret tracks and spoor.—Bydimitri Selibas, science.org, 13 June 2024 Volcanoes some distance away from here left behind some sturdy volcanic rock, but also this spoor of volcanic ash that drifted underwater before the PV Peninsula became itself.—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2024 On Twitter, people speak scoffingly of canceling themselves, as a joke or a pre-emptive measure, since presumably any of us could be canceled at any time, living in our glass Instagrams, leaving a spoor of digitized gaffes behind us.—New York Times, 3 Dec. 2020 Snow had fallen less than an hour ago, and this spoor is on top of it.—Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 17 Jan. 2020 The previous method used spoor (paw prints, also called pugmarks, and scat), which often led to the same animal being counted multiple times.—National Geographic, 20 Apr. 2016 On top goes chaat masala, a collage of spices haunted by the smoky spoor of black salt; amchur, tart green mango powder; and asafetida, with its faint evocation of meat.—Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2016
McColgan, daughter of former Olympian Liz, won 5,000m silver and 10,000m gold at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, and still holds eight British records on the road and track — for distances ranging from 5,000m/5km up to half-marathon.
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Liam Tharme,
The Athletic,
23 Mar. 2025
For the moment, Europe's launcher program is back on track to provide autonomous access to space, a capability European officials consider a strategic imperative.
Another 18 dung dots decorated the cabinets, floors and shelves.
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David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
7 Mar. 2025
There’s time for kids to inspect elephant dung, find bones, collect guinea fowl feathers, and make castings of lion paw prints, plus let loose in waterfalls, try catch-and-release fishing, and learn to throw spears.
The Musketeers trailed by eight points at halftime and as many as 10 in the second half.
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Colleen Kane,
Chicago Tribune,
20 Mar. 2025
Adams, who’s trailing Cuomo by double digits in most polls of the mayoral race, has come under fire since the Trump Justice Department moved to drop his federal corruption indictment in a manner that critics and allies say has left the mayor behold to Trump’s political agenda.
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Chris Sommerfeldt,
New York Daily News,
20 Mar. 2025
Blige also connected jazz (scat singing, riffing on a phrase, improvising wordless lines), gospel (testifying akin to a preacher delivering a sermon) and hip hop traditions.
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Bob Gendron,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Mar. 2025
Despite recent concerns about an increase in cat consumption, the scientists found feline remnants in only about 4.5 percent of the scat samples.
The euphoria courses through my body as the blood drips down my legs.
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Andy Collinson,
Health,
19 Mar. 2025
When the Titans actually pick up golf clubs, practices will be geared exclusively toward pressure situations: short-game work from 120-yards in, dealing with 5-10-foot putts and other game elements that reveal a player’s mental character and course management skills.
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Brian Robin,
Orange County Register,
13 Mar. 2025
Yogi Sahu, a resident near Chynoweth Park who had organized with his neighbors to pressure City Hall to act, recalled RV dwellers dumping human excrement into the trains, hanging underwear on trees, playing loud music and stealing packages.
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Devan Patel,
The Mercury News,
21 Jan. 2025
The illness is spread by the Marburg virus, which is found in the urine, saliva and excrement of Egyptian rousette bats.
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