How to Use lose track in a Sentence
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That can cause people to lose track of the day or time of day.
—NBC News, 30 Dec. 2021
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Even the best judges make mistakes, change their minds and lose track of changes in the law.
—Rafael Olmeda, Sun Sentinel, 7 May 2022
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Anyway, their boat capsizes and the cops lose track of them.
—Jean Bentley, refinery29.com, 29 Sep. 2021
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What’s worse, for a big chunk of the movie we, like everyone else, lose track of Gonker.
—Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 13 Jan. 2023
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Oettinger made the save with his right pad but seemed to lose track of the puck, which sat a few inches off his skate in the crease.
—Peter Warren, Dallas News, 6 Mar. 2023
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The idea was to never lose track of Tiger during the entire body of a three-hour broadcast.
—New York Times, 4 Apr. 2022
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Anderson reclaimed the lead with his first of the year on a shot from the blue line that Jarry seemed to lose track of.
—Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2022
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That might all be more palatable if Icke didn’t lose track of the characters and humor along the way.
—Vulture, 15 June 2023
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Then there was the translator who made it through the gates, only to lose track of his family at the end.
—Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2021
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Some tune out bank and credit-card balances, lose track of their spending and rack up debt.
—Oyin Adedoyin, wsj.com, 17 Apr. 2023
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Some tune out bank and credit-card balances, lose track of their spending and rack up debt.
—Oyin Adedoyin, wsj.com, 17 Apr. 2023
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With part of the team in the office, don't lose track of those who are still primarily remote.
—Marita Decker, Forbes, 11 May 2021
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Cons: Will lose track of the width of his feet, minimizing his balance.
—USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2021
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Fun fact: This adults-only inn doesn't have alarm clocks or TVs, so feel free to lose track of time and get lost with your partner.
—Sarah Zlotnick, Country Living, 27 Jan. 2023
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The Gilded Age could lose track trying to keep up with the sheer volume of theater talent on screen.
—Adrienne Gaffney, ELLE, 26 Jan. 2022
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Fans, who followed them during their college years, lose track of them.
—Ryan McFadden, Baltimore Sun, 16 July 2022
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Al Drago/Bloomberg How could anyone lose track of so much money?
—Larry Edelman, BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2023
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Native leaders have asked: How could schools lose track of children?
—Jeff Gammage, Anchorage Daily News, 13 May 2022
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When all prices are rising, consumers lose track of how much is reasonable to pay.
—New York Times, 3 June 2022
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According to our pros, these are the best smart notebooks of 2023 to help you get organized and never lose track of a to-do list again.
—Good Housekeeping, 20 June 2023
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Aftersun takes place at the point where a father and daughter begin to lose track of each other.
—Time, 21 Oct. 2022
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These glitches take advantage of a quirk where the game can sometimes lose track of a player's true position in the world.
—Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 11 Apr. 2022
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Lap 1: Reasonably clean start A couple of cars have weave through Turns 1-2 and lose track position.
—Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Sep. 2023
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Perfectly suited to a daydreamer-cum-hiker like me who tends to lose track of his feet.
—Robert O'Harrow Jr., Washington Post, 3 June 2022
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Wagner has a good sense of timing on his cuts, waiting for the paint to open up and for his defender to lose track of him when turning their head.
—Khobi Price, Orlando Sentinel, 10 Sep. 2022
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That leaves 19 species of beaked whales—again, creatures of a size that would seem tricky to lose track of—that are somewhere between mysteries and total enigmas.
—J. B. MacKinnon, The Atlantic, 30 Mar. 2021
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For quantum computers, one of the most critical measures is error rate, since the qubits lose track of their state in a way that digital hardware doesn't.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 16 Dec. 2021
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The lack of identifiable records for clients and employees led SBF and his team to lose track of millions in assets regularly.
—Will Daniel, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2023
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At fourteen, Clark started to lose track of A.S.L. conversations.
—Andrew Leland, The New Yorker, 12 May 2022
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The results show that any hypothetical path-finding algorithm that doesn’t blindly guess would have to temporarily lose track of the entrance to have any chance of succeeding.
—Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 20 July 2023
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