bird-dog

In times past, the nation would have learned of the fate of the commonwealth’s senior senator because a bird-dog reporter like Al Cross would have tracked it all down and reported it.

From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2026

Say what you will about his politics; the Tesla Model Y drives like a bird-dog in the hunt.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026

The city also has restricted the renting of homes through online short-term rental services such as Airbnb, but like most small municipalities, it can’t bird-dog all that activity.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 6, 2019

She said she does the same with her colleagues in Congress during her “never-ending effort” to bird-dog growing legislative efforts to require more scrutiny of Chinese students and scholars.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2019

Here there was a long pause, while Polatkin stood in the middle of the office floor like a bird-dog pointing at a covey of partridges.

From Elkan Lubliner, American by Montague Glass

“Politicians aren’t ignoring us anymore, and it’s because we agitated, we organized, and we bird-dogged these politicians every place they were.”

From Washington Post ● Nov. 9, 2021

Television crews bird-dogged passing senators with questions and quips.

From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2017

They bird-dogged public hearings and visited Chambers of Commerce and Lions and Rotary Clubs, putting 200,000 miles on their truck.

From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2011

Over New Year's, they bird-dogged a line of student demonstrators on a four-day, 75-mile protest walk from Belfast to Londonderry.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dan Friesen, co-host of the podcast Knowledge Fight, has been valiantly bird-dogging Jones for years.

From Slate ● Aug. 8, 2022

When they did make contact, they deployed a strategy known as bird-dogging, asking pointed questions about how a senator would be voting.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 6, 2018

In these, he is inventively abetted by Marc Spicer’s bird-dogging camera, which noses around closet doors and into cellar corners with shivery curiosity.

From New York Times ● Jul. 21, 2016

His campaign has beefed up a team dedicated to bird-dogging the arcane state-by-state process of selecting delegates — which Trump is struggling to navigate — assigning each delegate to a dedicated campaign staffer for support.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 13, 2016

He's hand in glove with McCaffery and that blonde is bird-dogging him around town and pointing out McCaffery's enemies.

From "And That's How It Was, Officer" by Ralph Sholto