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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The collision, which happened at the Asoke-Din Daeng railway crossing on Saturday afternoon, saw the train crash into a public bus that had come to a stop on the railway tracks.
From BBC • May 18, 2026
Some of the tracks — like “Piano Concerto No. 0,” which features André literally smashing a piano to smithereens — are obviously comedic.
From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026
Next, machine learning-based pattern recognition was used to determine the most important features from the PH data, producing a digital free-energy landscape that tracks how magnetic microstructures evolve as energy changes.
From Science Daily • May 18, 2026
That tracks with Wall Street’s recent pattern of ignoring Main Street’s pain.
From Barron's • May 15, 2026
Dad turned down a darker street that crossed the Monon tracks.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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