tracks
Britishplural noun
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(sometimes singular) marks, such as footprints, tyre impressions, etc, left by someone or something that has passed
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on the very spot where one is standing (esp in the phrase stop in one's tracks )
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to leave or depart
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to go or head towards
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the unfashionable or poor district or stratum of a community
Example Sentences
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To make that comparison possible, the researchers combined observations of Venus with a radiative-transfer model that tracks how light is repeatedly scattered and absorbed by cloud droplets and atmospheric molecules.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026
Best known for their tracks Firestarter and Breathe, The Prodigy will take to the stage on the Saturday night and are expected to play songs from their catalogue spanning 35 years.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
There’s a switch just below the car that would send the trolley onto one of two tracks.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026
A swarm of advanced AI agents inside OpenAI hacked into the AI platform Hugging Face, gained control of computer servers and tried to cover tracks about what they had done.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
There were no sled tracks on either of the trails.
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
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