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recons

noun

plural of recon

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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Executives, analysts and scouts throughout the sport are spending the final few weeks of the regular season finalizing their valuations and target lists and ranking the potential free agents in the 2026-2027 class.

— Jim Bowden, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026
After being rebuffed by communities in the South, Keaton came to Oregon with his scouts and saw the timber town of Cottage Grove had a short line railroad that went into the foothills of the Cascades.

— Brian Bull, NPR, 3 Sep. 2026

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The Richmond County Sheriff’s Office in Georgia as of a July 2026 policy change now requires deputies to submit search requests through its Intelligence Unit, which runs the searches on their behalf.

— Kenny Jacoby, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026
Secondary searches of the building were ongoing Friday morning.

— Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 28 Aug. 2026

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Grinter said dragonflies are among the most effective predators in nature, with more than 90% of their hunts ending successfully.

— Olga R. Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2026
In a few months, Abdeen’s siblings, cousins, and uncles would go off on their annual Christmastime hunts.

— Rozina Ali, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of hunts

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There’s that vibrancy and, on the other side of the ledger, dead boys, ciphers, unfinished or unfinishable quests.

— Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026
Players who complete a series of optional quests involving the Divine Child—a young girl who is the sole survivor of experiments by the heretical monks of Ashina’s Senpou Temple—can choose the Return ending.

— Aman Kumar, Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Aug. 2026

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