1
: the assigning of students to a curricular track
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: the standard distance between adjacent characters (as in composed text) : letterspacing compare kerning
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took a class in the tracking of game that the hunters' association offers
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And the President’s feckless tech bros can arbitrarily withhold billions in federal support for everything from cancer research to hurricane tracking.
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Ron Cunningham, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 June 2025
SpaceX has accounted for 134 of the 166 orbital launches in the US so far this year, according to tracking by Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
—Paresh Dave, Wired News, 6 June 2025
From online shopping habits to fitness tracking logs, personal information ends up in hundreds of company databases.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 5 June 2025
Cuomo also faced scrutiny for the state's tracking of deaths from COVID-19 in nursing homes during his tenure after reports that Cuomo and his team withheld from state legislators the true number of COVID-19 deaths at New York nursing homes.
—Oren Oppenheim, ABC News, 4 June 2025
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Ron Cunningham, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 June 2025
SpaceX has accounted for 134 of the 166 orbital launches in the US so far this year, according to tracking by Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
—Paresh Dave, Wired News, 6 June 2025
From online shopping habits to fitness tracking logs, personal information ends up in hundreds of company databases.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 5 June 2025
Cuomo also faced scrutiny for the state's tracking of deaths from COVID-19 in nursing homes during his tenure after reports that Cuomo and his team withheld from state legislators the true number of COVID-19 deaths at New York nursing homes.
—Oren Oppenheim, ABC News, 4 June 2025
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“Tracking.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tracking. Accessed 12 Jun. 2025.
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