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tailing
noun
The act of following someone.
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By lunchtime we had spent two hours tailing a brace of blue whales (only the largest creatures on earth, no biggie).
But in most of the developing world, the gains in productivity from it are tailing off.Globally, 800m people are still malnourished.
It will show that offshoring in its traditional sense, in search of cheaper labour anywhere on the globe, is maturing, tailing off and to some extent being reversed.
The appeal of Orthodox monasteries, after their astonishing expansion over the past decade, may now be tailing off.
What didn't go away was his fear of cars, especially those tailing him.
Nonetheless, he insisted, the agents tailing Mr Villanueva on the day of his disappearing act were clean.
The economy grew by a perky 8% (more than Russia managed), though growth is now tailing off.
But the project would turn several small Andean lakes into reservoirs or tailing ponds.Some locals support Conga.
And the gains are tailing off: cereal yields in Asia, for example, are now increasing at only two-thirds the rate seen in the 1970s.
One of the largest operators of malls in Asia says that sales in less favoured locations are already tailing off.
Asia enjoyed such a "demographic dividend", which began three decades ago and is now tailing off.
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