as in surveillance
military activity in which soldiers, airplanes, etc., are sent to find out information about an enemy
There are two helicopters available for reconnaissance. reconnaissance missions
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Recent Examples of reconnaissance
Then, if a system develops from the wave moving into the Bahamas, additional flights would take place to get center position fixes every six hours, according to the reconnaissance schedule.
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Doyle Rice, USA Today, 25 Sep. 2025
Finally, even if lunar impact is ruled out there is significant potential utility in deploying a reconnaissance mission to characterize the asteroid.
—Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 23 Sep. 2025
Separately, Swedish and German forces reported on Sunday that Swedish JAS 39 Gripens and German Eurofighters were scrambled over the South Baltic Sea to identify and monitor a Russian IL-20 reconnaissance aircraft flying in international airspace without a flight plan or radio contact.
—Nina Subkhanberdina, CNN Money, 21 Sep. 2025
German and Swedish fighter jets were scrambled to intercept a Russian reconnaissance plane that entered neutral airspace over the Baltic Sea on Sunday morning, officials from Germany and Sweden said.
—Fatma Tanis, NPR, 21 Sep. 2025
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Doyle Rice, USA Today, 25 Sep. 2025
Finally, even if lunar impact is ruled out there is significant potential utility in deploying a reconnaissance mission to characterize the asteroid.
—Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 23 Sep. 2025
Separately, Swedish and German forces reported on Sunday that Swedish JAS 39 Gripens and German Eurofighters were scrambled over the South Baltic Sea to identify and monitor a Russian IL-20 reconnaissance aircraft flying in international airspace without a flight plan or radio contact.
—Nina Subkhanberdina, CNN Money, 21 Sep. 2025
German and Swedish fighter jets were scrambled to intercept a Russian reconnaissance plane that entered neutral airspace over the Baltic Sea on Sunday morning, officials from Germany and Sweden said.
—Fatma Tanis, NPR, 21 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reconnaissance
Noun
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Police recovered three bullet casings at the crime scene as well as surveillance footage that showed a man in a white Chevrolet Silverado entering the clinic on the day Tokuhara was murdered.—
Emily Blackwood,
PEOPLE,
4 Oct. 2025
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Combs also apologized to abuse victims around the world who may have been triggered by the surveillance footage of him assaulting Ventura.—
Nicki Brown,
CNN Money,
4 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The picture created is the result of combining observations taken roughly 20 years apart.—
Kenna Hughes-Castleberry,
Space.com,
7 Oct. 2025
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These observations clearly suggest that AI was indeed used to create these videos.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
7 Oct. 2025
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