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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OpenAI has unveiled Aardvark, autonomous AI agent that hunts for software vulnerabilities before hackers can exploit them.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
30 Oct. 2025
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At six months, they would be weaned and eating solid food, but would not have been on many hunts with the adults to learn how to take down prey.—
Sharon Bernstein,
Sacbee.com,
29 Oct. 2025
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Despite his popularity, Knight has consistently fallen short in his quests for the World Heavyweight Championship.—
Andrew Ravens,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 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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