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
On Aug. 18, 2009, two days before a national election, I was supposed to partner with Afghan army forces to reconnoiter local polling sites.
From Washington Post • Aug. 20, 2021
I had already done a little hiking to the west around Rangeley and Flagstaff Lakes, in the week before Katz came, as a kind of reconnoiter, so I felt as if I knew the terrain.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
Vocabulary lists containing reconnoiter
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