lookout
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"Assuming the Fed leaves rates unchanged as expected, traders will be on the lookout for a potentially stronger description of inflation risks and/or possible wording to signal conditional tightening," said Matt Weller at City Index.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
Those who describe their career strategies as "lily padding" are always on the lookout for the next opportunity.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
A prior warning by the Treasury Department directed banks to be on the lookout for employers that may be committing payroll fraud by employing undocumented immigrants.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
With ambitions of cornering the electric vehicle market, India is also on the lookout for critical minerals such as lithium -- another resource Australia has in abundance.
From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026
Ratwin snorted and returned to her lookout post, halfway up the mast.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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Instead, they act as digital lookouts who hunt for coveted vintage apartments that are otherwise hard to find without expertise.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026
They had plate numbers and makes and models of cars, and sometimes even VINs; they had scouts and lookouts; they had canvassed businesses and compiled surveillance footage.
From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2025
An oil tanker and cargo ship that crashed in the North Sea did not have "dedicated lookouts" in what were "patchy conditions", an interim report has found.
From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2025
For lookouts reachable on foot within a day, the Forest Service provided a pack animal — but the human had to walk.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 1, 2023
The next day they were spotted by lookouts from a camp hidden among the sandy hills.
From "In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse" by Joseph Marshall III
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