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reconnoiter

verb as in inspect

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In 2013, in Vietnam, he reconnoitered the Danish embassy and distracted staffers as nine defectors, posing as South Korean tourists, entered and claimed asylum.

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“The troops are reconnoitered in the back parking lot.”

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When Liddy and Hunt go to reconnoiter the psychiatrist’s office, they wear terrible wigs by way of disguise.

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Top executives have shifted their attention to other countries that they can more easily reconnoiter.

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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.

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