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
Top executives have shifted their attention to other countries that they can more easily reconnoiter.
From New York Times ● Oct. 8, 2022
Some of BepiColombo’s instruments that were designed to study Mercury can also be utilized to reconnoiter Venus’s atmosphere, the mission’s scientists say.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 23, 2020
I decided to go out to reconnoiter and see how stranded we might be.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
Vocabulary lists containing reconnoiter
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