as in scouts
US, informal
military activity in which soldiers, airplanes, etc., are sent to find out information about an enemy
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While the department already consists of head of technical recruitment and analysis Maximilian Hahn, sporting director Mark Noble (whose remit is the academy), European scouts Georges Santos and Antonio Tramontano, and first-team scout Adrian Clarke, there is a clear gap at the top.—
Roshane Thomas,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025 -
Belichick banned Patriots scouts from attending UNC practices.—
Doug Kyed,
Boston Herald,
24 Oct. 2025
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Aerial drones and multiple ground searches were a part of the recovery operation.—
Mikelle Street,
Them.,
27 Oct. 2025
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Kiffin’s name has consistently surfaced in such searches and is again near the top of many wish lists, partly because Ole Miss has become one of the conference’s most explosive offenses under his tenure in recent seasons.—
Rowan Fisher-Shotton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Oct. 2025
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The hiring slump is especially hitting professions such as information technology that employ more college graduates, creating nightmarish job hunts for the increasingly smaller number who do complete college.—
James Pollard,
Fortune,
20 Oct. 2025
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Our daughter, Miriam, came along on most turkey hunts, earmuffs on her head and camouflage draped over her backpack carrier.—
Christine Peterson,
Outdoor Life,
16 Oct. 2025
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When a boy named Milo goes through a tollbooth that appears in his room on an average day at home, he is met with a series of punny quests — including jumping to the Island of Conclusions, learning about time from a ticking watchdog named Tock and rescuing Rhyme and Reason.—
Madison E. Goldberg,
PEOPLE,
24 Oct. 2025
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Those favors pile up after a while, but that’s not a problem, because quests in The Outer Worlds 2 are always worth taking.—
Jason Fanelli,
Rolling Stone,
23 Oct. 2025
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“Recons.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/recons. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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