skirr

as in to explore
to go into or range over for purposes of discovery the film company will soon skirr the area looking for locations

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Verb
  • Companies that stop exploring eventually watch others in their field eat their lunch.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
  • Integrating Information and Imaging the Brain Another way to explore the development of consciousness is to check for brain activity associated with this state in adulthood with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).
    Christian Wolf, Scientific American, 25 June 2025
Verb
  • While searching for the wreckage from 2005 to 2013, the nonprofit found nine shipwrecks, but not Flight 2501.
    CBS News, CBS News, 25 June 2025
  • But the Israel-Iran conflict − and Trump's decision to bomb three Iranian nuclear sites − has scrambled the high-stakes meeting as world leaders search for an endgame to the 12-day air war that's killed hundreds of people in Iran and dozens in Israel.
    Francesca Chambers, USA Today, 25 June 2025
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  • The Oilers acquiring either man wouldn’t be necessary should Bowman successfully sign Oilers prospect Maxim Berezkin out of the KHL this summer.
    Allan Mitchell, New York Times, 22 June 2025
  • Still, there’s one woman whose prospects Lucy despairs of.
    Jocelyn Noveck, Boston Herald, 13 June 2025
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“Skirr.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/skirr. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.

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