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verb

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Recent Examples of scout
Noun
Trier and his location scouts searched for the right house for nearly a year. Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025 Grunloh is the one scouts have had a bit more excitement about, though, as the 7-footer is a tremendous shot blocker and defender who can also step out and occasionally knock down a shot. Sam Vecenie, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
Verb
In mid-September, the three Michigan men are believed to have been allegedly scouting locations for a possible attack, according to the complaint. Luke Barr, ABC News, 5 Nov. 2025 Frankie Piliere, who has been the team’s director of amateur scouting the past two years, now holds the title of vice president of amateur forecasting and player evaluation initiatives. Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 3 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for scout
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scout
Noun
  • For every additional person $109 would be added.
    Daniel McFadin, Arkansas Online, 6 Nov. 2025
  • As a childless person who doesn’t teach I’ve been happily unaware that, due to standardized testing requirements that favor close reads of excerpts over whole books, there’s an entire generation of students who have very little contextual framework for the literature they’re being taught in school.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Spicer was voted out after eight weeks of mocking from social media and the show’s judges.
    Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Brown said, mocking the press headlines.
    Zack Sharf, Variety, 5 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • You guys have pretty well done that on your own with a 50 percent divorce rate.
    Jason Lemon, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Gerard Damiano was a smart guy, a hairdresser from the Bronx who directed Deep Throat and the follow-up, Devil in Miss Jones, which were killing it at the box office, high up on Variety’s Top 50 list of the highestgrossing films.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Many skilled bartenders seem to scorn the Bloody Mary, regarding it as unserious and lightweight, just as many in the food world loathe brunch, the meal most often associated with the Bloody Mary, or wine people ridicule Sancerre, seeing it as a fallback order for people who know little about wine.
    The New York Times News Service Syndicate, Denver Post, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Evidently the Miami Dolphins didn’t like being mocked and ridiculed all week, nationally by the football media and at home by their own angry fans.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 26 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum is pressing charges against a man who was caught on camera touching and attempting to kiss her during a public appearance on Tuesday.
    Ellie Cook, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2025
  • The Little Rock man who, police say, crashed while fleeing from an Arkansas State Police trooper last week now faces first-degree murder counts in the death of two teenage passengers, authorities said Wednesday.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 6 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Millennials, typically defined as individuals born between the early 1980s and the mid-1990s, are now at a point in their lives where their generational nostalgia is front and center.
    Saba Hamedy, NBC news, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Aldo Olivieri, il Gatto Magico (the Magic Cat), who had survived a fractured skull that required drilling to save his life and left him with chronic headaches, became the first-choice goalkeeper.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 7 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • On Tuesday night the onstage performer inhabiting the creature created by Tahra Zafar was Arti Shah, and it was voiced by James Hameed.
    Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Domenic Biagini, who owns and operates Gone Whale Watching San Diego, captured footage of the massive group of dolphins, estimating that there were between 2,000 and 7,000 of the sea creatures swimming together.
    Michael Nied, PEOPLE, 5 Nov. 2025

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“Scout.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scout. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.

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