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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

She was still shadowing a more senior member of staff when the choking incident occurred.

From BBC Mar. 25, 2026

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

From Science Daily Mar. 19, 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

The chimney pots on the roofs...and on some, the shadowing looming of pigeon cotes...sometimes, faintly heard, the sleepy cooing of pigeons...the twin spires of the Church, remotely brooding over the dark tenements ….

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith




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