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stalk

noun as in stem of plant

verb as in follow, creep up on

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The release of the pet tracker shows how location sharing is becoming more common even amid concerns about privacy and stalking.

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Summer dormancy has turned the tall stalks of wand buckwheat brown and bare, except for tiny balls of pink flowers, but the plants should leaf out again in the spring.

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Following campaigns from victims of stalking, the government has agreed to review the law.

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Now the Antichrist may be a stalking horse for a different question: what it means, in some genetically stable sense, to be human.

In many productions, Hamlet stalks the stage in a fog of misery, as if trailing a rain cloud above his head like a balloon on a string.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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