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reconnoiter
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  • Elwood took to reconnoitering spent or rotten planks.†  (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)
  • 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)
  • Absorbed in his plans, Dick did not notice a patrol car pan him, slow down, reconnoiter.†  (source)
  • He got away from Mr Charrington and went down the stairs alone, so as not to let the old man see him reconnoitring the street before stepping out of the door.†  (source)
  • They were supposed to stay there only until the neighborhood had been reconnoitered and suitable winter quarters found.†  (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.
  • So follow me a little to the left, where there is a rise in the ground, whence we may make our 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)
  • At the outer doorway he pauses to reconnoitre.†  (source)
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