recon

as in reconnaissance
US, informal military activity in which soldiers, airplanes, etc., are sent to find out information about an enemy

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Recent Examples of recon View gallery - 6 images Hoping to push Mars exploration into top gear and do recon for a future crewed landing, AeroVironment has released its concept for a mission consisting of half a dozen autonomous helicopters that would land on the Red Planet under their own power. David Szondy august 01, New Atlas, 1 Aug. 2025 Joe gets stuck with the grunt work – gathering recon and sorting getaway plans – but that puts him in prime position to witness Angelo’s Alzheimer’s decline. Denise Petski, Deadline, 14 July 2025 The roar of the Thunderbirds filled the sky Saturday over Beale Air Force Base, long known for the more clandestine surveillance and recon missions of the U.S. Air Force. Sacbee.com, 8 June 2025 Blackbird and Void are stealthier types, with the former taking on recon duties to reveal enemy locations and the latter capable of turning invisible and shrouding the squad in smoke. Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 2 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for recon
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Noun
  • The company plans to connect the quadruped with its Cerberus MI small unmanned aerial system (sUAS), creating a networked ecosystem where aerial and ground robots coordinate in real-time to support special operations and reconnaissance missions.
    Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 15 Oct. 2025
  • On beginning the new job, Blazy had spent time in the house archives while doing his own reconnaissance and research.
    Nathan Heller, Vogue, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The Institute’s first location and talent catalog will debut with the 2026 launch and will be designed to aid casting directors and scouts.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 22 Oct. 2025
  • And when your town is so small that everyone knows everyone else – Mjällby’s head coach is a school principal and its scout is a postman – your weaknesses can become your biggest strengths.
    Jamie Barton, CNN Money, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Adding search functionality and geolocating the buildings introduced additional complications, as did ensuring the map’s coding communicated with the coding of the NDU website.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 25 Oct. 2025
  • An autopsy conducted by the Vermont Chief Medical Examiner’s Office in Burlington identified the body discovered Thursday during a search for Lia Smith as the 21-year-old transgender former student-athlete, Vermont State Police announced late Friday.
    Joshua Rhett Miller, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • By the late nineteen-eighties, Soviet women were accustomed to coming home after a draining work day to run unmechanized households and hunt for vanishingly rare food and clothing for their children, who were primarily their responsibility.
    Julia Ioffe, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Gibson Films is even producing a new documentary, Lost to the Future, which follows the global hunt for McFly’s iconic red ES-345 guitar.
    Tereza Shkurtaj, PEOPLE, 19 Oct. 2025

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“Recon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/recon. Accessed 25 Oct. 2025.

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