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trailing

/ ˈٰɪɪŋ /

adjective

  1. (of a plant) having a long stem which spreads over the ground or hangs loosely

    trailing ivy

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Meanwhile, Conservative leader Poilievre made his final stops in Ontario where polls indicate his party is trailing behind.

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Allen was trailing 10-2 at the time after losing all four previous frames in the morning session on Friday.

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Polls suggest the Bloc Quebecois, a party advocating for Quebec separatism that only runs candidates in the French-speaking province, is in third place, with the left-leaning New Democratic Party trailing behind in fourth.

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Burns’ chilling Booker Prize winner, inspired partly by growing up during the Troubles in Belfast, Northern Ireland, centers a teenage narrator who is stalked by a 40-something paramilitary trailing her in his white van.

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That is one area in which England's white-ball teams are trailing the best teams in the world.

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