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reconnoiter
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  • Once he and I were in the jungle a few yards away from a river, and he wanted to reconnoiter over certain areas, but he couldn't get the view he wanted.†  (source)
  • He was in an unhurried, reconnoitering mood, with time to go to a rocky edge and take a glimpse of the near-vertical scree down which he would shortly have to throw himself.†  (source)
  • He turns away from the Raft, skims across the ocean to Port Sherman to do a bit of reconnoitering there.†  (source)
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  • It was too light and too early to do anything, but they wanted to reconnoitre and get a look at the place.†  (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use reconnoiter.
  • This did not keep Popov from periodic reconnoitering.†  (source)
  • I'm gonna go scrub up and we reconnoiter in the kitchen, twenty minutes.†  (source)
  • "In other words," declared Eli Lavon, who reconnoitered the drop site on the morning after Nabil Awad's interrogation, "it's a spy's nightmare."†  (source)
  • She watched him exploring their strange surroundings; watched him drop flat on his stomach, and knew he was Davy Crockett, reconnoitring a new frontier.†  (source)
  • That is to say, he must have reconnoitred the ground beforehand.†  (source)
  • Lately she's had the sense of someone watching her, though whenever she reconnoitres there's nobody there.†  (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it reconnoiters.
  • Seeing that I was more skilled in scouting than the others, while they lay back in the cover, I was sent upon the plain, on the business of the reconnoitrings.†  (source)
  • As long as she is high up in the air, she reconnoiters the ship and confirms that there is no way off, no handy gangplanks or stairway thingies.†  (source)
  • Now, you and the Chief get up and cook breakfast, while I go up on the top of this mountain and reconnoitre.†  (source)
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