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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
Ancient Egyptians also revered dung beetles because the rolling of the dung balls reminded them of the sun god rolling the sun across the sky, according to the Israel Museum.
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Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
3 Apr. 2025
Living in the wood economy means relying on wood, dung, and other basic bioenergy.
Dolly the pug lives in the United Kindom with her owner, Tracy, and has now amassed a large fanbase as Tracy shared a video of her to account @tracyntina.
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Rachael O'Connor,
Newsweek,
18 Mar. 2025
Heather Frost shared footage of her pug Gus's reaction to meeting her son in a video posted to her TikTok account heather.frosty.
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.
This issue continues to dog the fan community, in particular.
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Simon Thompson,
Forbes.com,
12 Apr. 2025
Snow White is looking at gross of $14 million to $15 million in its second weekend, a steep decline of 65 percent or more as the live-action update continues be dogged by poor word-of-mouth and controversial headlines over its star, Rachel Zegler.
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Pamela McClintock,
HollywoodReporter,
29 Mar. 2025
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