as in excursion
a short trip for pleasure
an occasional sortie to the city to rummage through some of its numerous used-book stores
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Recent Examples of sortie
Last year, Taiwan detected 5,105 Chinese sorties into its airspace.
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Zack Cooper, Foreign Affairs, 6 Nov. 2025
Steadfast Noon is scheduled to run through the week, with participating aircraft returning to home bases once training sorties conclude.
—Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 13 Oct. 2025
Cochrane flew two sorties, one with Ben and Michael, another with Ray and Ben’s father.
—Ted Katauskas, Outside, 23 Sep. 2025
Beijing sends warplanes and ships toward the island on near-daily sorties.
—Jennifer Jett, NBC news, 18 May 2025
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Zack Cooper, Foreign Affairs, 6 Nov. 2025
Steadfast Noon is scheduled to run through the week, with participating aircraft returning to home bases once training sorties conclude.
—Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 13 Oct. 2025
Cochrane flew two sorties, one with Ben and Michael, another with Ray and Ben’s father.
—Ted Katauskas, Outside, 23 Sep. 2025
Beijing sends warplanes and ships toward the island on near-daily sorties.
—Jennifer Jett, NBC news, 18 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sortie
Noun
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Twice-daily land and sea excursions are led by the park’s naturalist guides who remain onboard throughout the charter (one guide for every 10 guests), with itineraries ranging from four to eight days.—
Julia Zaltzman,
Robb Report,
26 Jan. 2026
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Camarda — who was also a member of the first space shuttle crew to launch after the 2003 Columbia disaster — is among a group of former NASA employees who do not believe that the space agency should put astronauts on board the upcoming lunar excursion.—
Jackie Wattles,
CNN Money,
23 Jan. 2026
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Guests of Delamar Mystic also receive complimentary admission to the Mystic Seaport Museum, the nation's largest maritime museum, which can help arrange charters for boat tours down the Mystic River and into Long Island Sound.—
Cameron Sperance,
Travel + Leisure,
6 Feb. 2026
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New infrared observations reveal the rare interstellar visitor comet 3I/ATLAS dramatically brightening during its farewell tour of the solar system.—
Samantha Mathewson,
Space.com,
6 Feb. 2026
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“Sortie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sortie. Accessed 7 Feb. 2026.
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