shakeout

Example Sentences

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"I've done a lot of stakeouts and doorstepping in my time," she told BBC News.

From BBC • Feb. 27, 2026

In 1986, Don Winslow was a 33-year-old New York-born, world-traveling private investigator who, during stakeouts, read crime fiction by authors such as Elmore Leonard, James Ellroy and Joseph Wambaugh.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026

The stakeouts had been having some success, until recently.

From Slate • Oct. 27, 2025

They went on stakeouts and kept dossiers on hundreds of providers of illegal abortions.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2023

We had dozens of stakeouts, watching the drop points for a pick up.

From Terminal Compromise: computer terrorism: when privacy and freedom are the victims: a novel by Schwartau, Winn