trail
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The four-time major winner outscored his playing partner and close friend Sam Burns by seven shots as he signed for a four-under 66 to get back on the winning trail.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
“If you continue on this trail, you can walk all the way to Maine!” my dad said, pointing northward.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
Literacy levels took longer to rise in India, while its health indicators still trail China’s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
A rare looping trail of fossilized footprints in Colorado is giving scientists a detailed look at how a giant dinosaur moved 150 million years ago.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
Belle aims straight, her legs moving steady like she knows the trail.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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He mutters and trails off when he speaks publicly, making him hard to quote in full.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
Johnson-Thompson will seek to limit her losses in the shot put - typically one of her weakest events - as she trails leader Sulek-Schubert by 141 points, and the podium places by 80.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Located near Ouray, the trackway is one of the most continuous and tightly curved sauropod footprint trails ever recorded.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
Trinity Large is still much smaller than the top AI models and trails models from Anthropic and OpenAI on many leading benchmarks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
Took him out on the trails around their house.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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ARK Innovation has trailed the S&P 500 by an average of nearly 23 percentage points annually since the end of 2020.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
But having trailed the League Two side 3-1 at half-time, Villa responded with seven goals in the second half to secure the win.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
Savannah crossed town to the University of Arizona, her alma mater, and strode the quad in sunglasses and a sundress, trailed by the marching band playing the school’s fight song, “Bear Down, Arizona.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
The Sparks trailed by only one point, 85-84, entering the fourth quarter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
The ghost trailed off and seemed to look at something in the distance.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
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On a trailing four-quarter basis, S&P 500 earnings are up 31% versus the year-earlier period, according to S&P data.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Bangladesh reached 96-1 at the close, trailing by 102 runs.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Take a look at the accompanying chart, which is based on the trailing five-year relative strength of midcap stocks, defined as the 40% of stocks in the middle of the market-cap distribution of U.S. stocks.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
Netanyahu, Israel's longest-serving leader, is running even or trailing in some polls ahead of October 27 elections, the country's first since the devastating 2023 attack by Hamas that sparked the Gaza war.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
Nevertheless, uneasiness settled over the companions as the gray shapes continued trailing them; and Melyngar, docile and obedient until now, turned skittish.
From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander
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