as in ridiculing
to make (someone or something) the object of unkind laughter
the actor's attempt to rationalize his racist comments were roundly scouted by the media
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Recent Examples of scouting
In mid-September, the three Michigan men are believed to have been allegedly scouting locations for a possible attack, according to the complaint.
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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
The rest of the movie is mostly bog-standard heist stuff — scouting the location, assuming secret identities and disguises, and working out the little details that will enable them to run off with the purse at the end of a wild night of gambling.
—Scott Meslow, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2025
Roughly six months after ChatGPT launched, Amazon started scouting land in rural Indiana, working with American Electric Power through its Indiana Michigan Power subsidiary.
—Mackenzie Sigalos, CNBC, 29 Oct. 2025
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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
The rest of the movie is mostly bog-standard heist stuff — scouting the location, assuming secret identities and disguises, and working out the little details that will enable them to run off with the purse at the end of a wild night of gambling.
—Scott Meslow, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2025
Roughly six months after ChatGPT launched, Amazon started scouting land in rural Indiana, working with American Electric Power through its Indiana Michigan Power subsidiary.
—Mackenzie Sigalos, CNBC, 29 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scouting
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But this heavy tide of content ridiculing any notion of his lasting importance to the American republic suggests a far different fate.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
21 Dec. 2025
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By the 1830s, politicians had stopped ridiculing America’s growing canal system.—
Matthew Smith,
The Conversation,
20 Oct. 2025
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Ricky Gervais has hosted the Golden Globes five times, making Hollywood sweat with his take-no-prisoners approach to jokes mocking showbiz.—
William Earl,
Variety,
30 Dec. 2025
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Now Sweeney, 75, is breaking his silence on a decades-long feud with Chevy Chase after Chase proposed Sweeney appear in an SNL sketch mocking the AIDS epidemic.—
Seth Abramovitch,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Dec. 2025
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“Scouting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scouting. Accessed 8 Jan. 2026.
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