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How to pronounce “tailing”
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Pronunciation guide for tailing
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of tailing with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 7 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Elon Musk: A future worth getting excited about
and then it starts tailing off
- Definition summary
- present participle and gerund of tail
Example 1 of 7
How to pronounce tailing
Elon Musk: A future worth getting excited about

and then it starts tailing off
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “tailing”
Meaning
- [Verb]
- present participle and gerund of tail
- [Noun]
- The act of following someone.
- (architecture) The part of a projecting stone or brick inserted in a wall.
- (obsolete) The lighter parts of grain separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing; chaff.
- A prolongation of current in a telegraph line, due to capacity in the line and causing signals to run together.
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