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verb

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Recent Examples of scout
Noun
Following this moment, the young location scout will almost exclusively occupy the shops and homes of other people. Lovia Gyarkye, HollywoodReporter, 14 July 2025 Trey and others will have scouts continuing to flock to Corona games next year. Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 12 July 2025
Verb
Montgomery, who comes from a scouting background in his post-playing career, may value analytical strategy more — holding pitchers from facing a lineup a third time through the order and playing matchups more. Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2025 As for Pillsbury, Dunham scouted him via her secret TikTok. Ellise Shafer, Variety, 8 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for scout
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scout
Noun
  • For every year before age 13 that a person acquired a smartphone, their mental health and well-being were likely to be lower, the study found.
    Kara Alaimo, CNN Money, 21 July 2025
  • Initial report: The intersection of Interstate 70 and North Post Road is closed as officials investigate a fatal crash that killed one person in east Indianapolis, Indianapolis police said.
    Matthew Cupelli, IndyStar, 21 July 2025
Verb
  • He was previously mocked on social media during a loss to Austin Peay in November, when the Fox College Hoops broadcast showed Clark sitting in the stands.
    Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 19 July 2025
  • The longtime litigator mocked the Mexican president's response.
    Michael Loria, USA Today, 18 July 2025
Noun
  • This -- Donald Trump should never have been hanging out with this guy and any other politician, any other human being.
    ABC News, ABC News, 20 July 2025
  • Our guys just competed and just really proud of the effort.
    LaMond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 20 July 2025
Verb
  • From the earliest days of Greek drama Herakles is ridiculed for his brutish way of eating his food, his preference for a good meal versus a good woman and, in Aristophanes’s The Bird, even his reluctance to leave a barbecue in order to help save his own father.
    John Mariani, Forbes.com, 25 July 2025
  • That audio clip has been shared some 60,000 times on TikTok, often by Venezuelans ridiculing the notion that everybody from their country is a gangster.
    ProPublica, ProPublica, 23 July 2025
Noun
  • Sean Lathe is one man who says he's had a positive experience after getting the treatment from Bustamante.
    Charles Trepany, USA Today, 24 July 2025
  • The wear and tear of a job that devours men in their 30s.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 24 July 2025
Noun
  • Advertisement Launched in 2003 by President George W. Bush, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) is widely considered one of America’s most consequential programs in Africa, credited with saving over 25 million lives and scaling back the AIDS epidemic.
    Nik Popli, Time, 15 July 2025
  • Quebrada’s upcoming film tells the story of a married woman, Cecilia, who faces silent grief after her lover’s sudden death, mourning in secret amid normal life.
    Anna Marie de la Fuente, Variety, 15 July 2025
Noun
  • The series, which has yet to receive a title, will see Newfoundland play Newfoundland as the rugged and picturesque Atlantic ocean provides the backdrop for the hunt for a sea creature.
    Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 15 July 2025
  • But then appeared on the road a living creature whose intent my driver could not understand: a cow.
    Shekar Natarajan, Forbes.com, 15 July 2025

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“Scout.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scout. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.

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