scouted

past tense of scout

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of scouted New York also scouted Wiggins’ bullpen sessions leading up to the draft. Will Sammon, New York Times, 12 July 2026 She was eventually scouted and traveled to London to record a few demos but did not immediately hear back. Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026 Chicago was eyed as the next Seattle, and nearly every garage band with an amp was being stalked and scouted. Selena Fragassi, SPIN, 8 July 2026 Kushner first scouted potential development sites during that trip. Max Grinstein, The Washington Examiner, 3 July 2026 And now, on June 30, a permanent arrangement has been finalized whereby Fati leaves the club that scouted him as a 10-year-old from Sevilla FC. Tom Sanderson, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026 Next said in a statement Housez never scouted for the company. Curt Devine, CNN Money, 13 June 2026 More than a dozen major league teams scouted Murakami — the Mets’ David Stearns made a personal visit to Japan to take a look at him — and all of them ultimately passed except the White Sox. Bill Madden, New York Daily News, 13 June 2026 Upward of a hundred promising adolescent boys, scouted as young as six, are admitted each year to live and train at the facility full time, in a system that resembles top youth-development programs in Europe and South America. Dan Greene, New Yorker, 12 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scouted
Verb
  • Dundon’s move was widely criticized — and ridiculed — after the Hurricanes on Thursday posted a picture of the engravings on social media.
    Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026
  • Not too shabby for a man who was roundly ridiculed for his defection from LaLiga in 2007.
    Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 10 July 2026
Verb
  • The remaining readers are marginalized, mocked, and in many ways irrelevant.
    Rose Horowitch, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026
  • More than 200 people were arrested in protest marches and anti-terror raids, including academics, lawyers, and journalists; a comedian who mocked President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was held at the airport.
    Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 7 July 2026

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“Scouted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scouted. Accessed 17 Jul. 2026.

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