Thesaurus results for TRACKER

tracker

noun

Definition of tracker

as in tracer

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Recent Examples of tracker Storm tracker Doyle Rice and Dinah Voyles Pulver are national correspondents for USA TODAY, with a focus on weather and climate. — Doyle Rice, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2026 But in Idaho — and Wyoming and West Virginia — Trump garnered a positive approval rating, according to August projections by the Economist, based on its tracker of YouGov polling over time. — Sarah Cutler, Idaho Statesman, 28 Aug. 2026 Only a handful of ships have recently crossed through Hormuz each day, down from levels of around 100 seen a year ago, according to the International Monetary Fund's PortWatch tracker. — Alex Harring, CNBC, 28 Aug. 2026 So far, 52 confirmed or probable measles cases have been reported in Iowa County, 43 in Lafayette County and three in Grant County, the state's measles tracker shows. — Madeline Heim, jsonline.com, 28 Aug. 2026 There’s an actual lap counter, timer and position tracker on the right side of the screen, plus the competitors are visible on the mini-map to the left. — Byron Hurd, The Drive, 27 Aug. 2026 In total, the Falcon 9 has been used for 422 Starlink missions, according to SpaceXNow, a launch tracker. — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 25 Aug. 2026 The fire spans more than 15,000 acres in the Reno area, according to InciWeb, a national wildfire data tracker, and has not been contained at all. — Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 24 Aug. 2026 According to the Department of Agriculture's new online wildfire tracker, there were nine fires active across the state as of Sunday afternoon, mostly in south Arkansas. — Daniel McFadin, Arkansas Online, 23 Aug. 2026

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Noun

This imaging test uses a tracer that attaches to PSMA proteins, allowing doctors to identify where prostate cancer cells may be located throughout the body.

— Lauryn Higgins, Flow Space, 15 June 2026
Many health care workers served longer, harder deployments than mine — Sierra Leonean nurses, Guinean contact tracers, Liberian community health workers — and carried equal or greater burdens, yet Americans rarely heard their stories.

— Krutika Kuppalli, STAT, 20 May 2026

Definition of tracer

Noun

In many cases, the robot tail wags the living dog by tricking it—tricking us—into caring about obscure metrics, then gamifying the process of improving them.

— Hillary Busis, Vanity Fair, 28 Aug. 2026
Then, in 2023, as NASA brought the worm out of retirement, the logo regained its place on the tail, and the insignia (meatball) was moved to the body under the cockpits.

— Robert Pearlman, ArsTechnica, 27 Aug. 2026