reconnoiter
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Filled with hydrogen, they were used to reconnoiter enemy positions, their passengers hand-sketching battlefield maps.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 16, 2026
When Liddy and Hunt go to reconnoiter the psychiatrist’s office, they wear terrible wigs by way of disguise.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2023
A week later, Chelsea Gerlach was sitting in a hotel room, preparing to reconnoiter a potential target, when she saw on TV that a pair of planes had crashed into the World Trade Center.
From New York Times • May 26, 2022
Still to be sorted out is when and how Mars 2020’s samples would be retrieved, as well as the order in which the rover would reconnoiter the workshop’s favored exploration sites.
From Scientific American • Oct. 22, 2018
Later, Hazel had said that there was nothing for it but to cross the open pasture and under Silver’s direction they had crossed it, with Dandelion running ahead to reconnoiter.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
Vocabulary lists containing reconnoiter
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