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shadowing

[shad-oh-ing] / ˈʃæd oʊ ɪŋ /


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All new employees get four days of training and then an additional week of shadowing other employees on the floor before they start selling.

From The Wall Street Journal May 6, 2026

Instead of shadowing wolves, ravens repeatedly returned to specific areas where kills were more common.

From Science Daily Mar. 19, 2026

The documentary team immersed itself in the 2022 McDonald’s All-American Games, shadowing two boys and two girls throughout the weekend.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 17, 2026

That includes shadowing Chinese coastguard ships and responding to suspicious vessels lingering near Taiwan's subsea telecoms cables.

From Barron's Nov. 11, 2025

For five days Buford had been tracking Lee’s army, shadowing it from a long way off as you track a big cat.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara




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