reconnoitered

verb

variants or reconnoitred
past tense of reconnoiter
as in explored
to go to (a place or area) in order to find out information especially about a military enemy; to do a reconnaissance of (a place) An expedition reconnoitered the coast to find out the exact location of enemy forces.

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  1. explored
  2. scouted
  3. searched
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  • First, there was Green Porno, her series of shorts that launched in 2008 on the Sundance Channel and explored some of the more bizarre mating behaviors in nature.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Crutchfield and Molt’s rivalry is explored in the book Stolen World by Jennie Erin Smith—like Monsters of God’s first episode, the author uses the two men as a window into how smuggling has fuelled the popularity of reptiles in modern America.
    — Rory Doherty, Time, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of explored
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  • All clubs have succession plans and Stuttgart’s Germany midfielder Angelo Stiller and Victor Froholdt of Porto, a Denmark international, are among the players to have been scouted intensively.
    — Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Diaz scouted the stadium a day before and took a test shot imagining Loria on the pitcher’s mound and a view of the interior of the stadium.
    — Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of scouted
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  • Police said that the suspect had also searched for websites on mass shootings before the attack and that the gun belonged to his grandfather and had been registered.
    — Connor Greene, Time, 7 Aug. 2026
  • The systems then searched for ways to obtain that material directly rather than solve every challenge as intended.
    — Ron Schmelzer, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of searched
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