scout
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When the truck wasn’t there, they would draw the heavy metal gate closed and lock it, or else pay a scout to sit out front watching, relaying surveillance intel when needed.
From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2026
The rover will scout out a landing site so that the MMX spacecraft itself can later touch down on Phobos.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
“I think every scout, if they scout for any length of time, is going to have one player that just is special to you. Jimmy Abbott was that,” Fontaine told JapanBall in 2022.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026
I finally watched it again on the plane to New Zealand to scout locations in 2024.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
During the Civil War she became a scout, a spy, a nurse for the Union forces.
From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry
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At 6-foot-3 with the route-running ability that once made scouts slack-jawed, he still possesses the skills to be a game-changing force at 24.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026
An in-house real-estate team aggressively scouts and negotiates deals for prime locations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
After adding more than 15 people to the front office, president of basketball operations Rob Pelinka said, the Lakers were still focused on adding more scouts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
The team has added new equipment for recovery and treatment and hopes to bring in more scouts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
The next day the king’s scouts chanced upon an abandoned crofters’ village between two lakes—a mean and meagre place, no more than a few huts, a longhall, and a watchtower.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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