as in pursuit
the act of going after or in the tracks of another
the merciless dogging of the Hollywood couple by the press
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as in chasing
to go after or on the track of
star athletes being dogged by fans when they're out in public
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as in hounding
to subject (someone) to constant scoldings and sharp reminders
tired of constantly having to dog their son about cleaning his room
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Recent Examples of dogging
Dalton Ross, EW.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Max Foster, CNN Money, 31 Oct. 2025
The business software maker on Wednesday unveiled an optimistic, multiyear financial roadmap that rejects the sluggish-growth narrative that has been dogging the stock.
—Natasha Abellard, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2025
Already, productivity declines are dogging the industry.
—Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 10 Sep. 2025
Great cornerbacks are football’s tawny owls, the biggest of the big-game hunters, dogging prey through darkness and chaos.
—Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 31 Aug. 2025
He's been raw-dogging it the whole time.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 25 Aug. 2025
The arrival of the new Model Y and the controversy dogging the Tesla brand are conspiring to flood the market with legacy Ys, driving prices down.
—Brooke Crothers, Forbes.com, 6 Apr. 2025
After dogging questions about The Devil Wears Prada for years, Anna Wintour is finally sharing her true thoughts on the comparisons between her and Meryl Streep‘s Miranda Priestley.
—Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
This has been the main difficulty dogging the development of lithium-sulfur batteries.
—Weiyang Li, IEEE Spectrum, 23 Aug. 2018
Noun
He's just been straight raw-dogging the last three days, staring off into space.
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But the monarch had no choice – Andrew’s controversies have been dogging the family for years and the publication of his accuser’s posthumous memoir was the final straw.
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This commitment marks a dramatic shift from Chicago’s lukewarm pursuit last February, when the Ricketts family ownership group authorized team president Jed Hoyer to offer Bregman a four-year, $115 million contract.—
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Giroux and Flowers said the film explores Greenberg’s pursuit as professional boundaries are tested.—
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In one incident, video obtained by FOX News shows two masked men holding handguns chasing a screaming resident around his house.—
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Fátima Bosch grew up in Santiago de Teapa, Tabasco, and has been chasing her pageant dreams for years.—
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The three did their jobs, hounding the Sabres with persistent physicality all game.—
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The former is the owner of a New York City hotspot; the latter is a man on the run from loan sharks, with heaps of personal issues and bad debts hounding him.—
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This ensuing odyssey rapidly evolves from a mere tracking expedition into a brutal test of endurance and a profound, sensory initiation.—
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People are going all out to make their cards visually appealing and fun to use, turning goal-tracking into a hands-on activity that’s both satisfying and motivating.—
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If and when the Ravens’ Eric DeCosta calls Sean Payton on Vance Joseph — or Giants GM Joe Schoen, or Raiders GM John Spytek, or one of six organizations pursuing the Broncos’ defensive coordinator for a head-coaching gig — Payton will tell them of a man who has a presence, now.—
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The growing pace of crypto ATM fraud has some policymakers pursuing bans and others asking why the nation is blanketed in these machines in the first place.—
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Crime Stoppers is urging the public not to approach the suspect, who should be considered armed and dangerous.—
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Economic risk from China dispute Japan's Internal Affairs Ministry issued a statement on Saturday urging regional election committees to start preparing in case of an early election.—
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Trying to track and contain a highly contagious virus—which requires interventions such as testing and rapid contact tracing—will tax public-health departments, too.—
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Part of Save the Children’s work is family tracing, which means trying to find out whether a relative is already in the camp or has arrived from a different route to a nearby area.—
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My father had been nagging Tarun and me to accompany him to a lesson, perhaps hoping that we might be inspired to take up an instrument, too.—
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Rather than nagging or framing missteps as failures, create initiation rituals that cue the brain to shift into work mode.—
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“Dogging.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dogging. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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