reconnaissance
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Moreover, North Korea doesn’t have the massive satellite networks that allow countries like the U.S. and Russia to undertake advanced reconnaissance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
Mohammad Bashir, 31, drove Jihad Al-Shamie on a 10-hour round trip to conduct hostile reconnaissance at the UK's Defence Academy in Shrivenham, Oxfordshire, on 14 August 2025.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
The meeting discussed ways to enhance the unit's "capability of military reconnaissance and intelligence activities in a radical way", it added.
From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026
The objective was to deliver the plane before the country’s 250th birthday festivities, said Jason Lambert, president of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance at L3Harris Technologies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
“Do a thorough reconnaissance and report in. Do not attempt a retrieval. Is that understood?”
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
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There will be reconnaissances to Trent Bridge to have a look at Australia's opener, Ed Cowan, who has signed for Nottinghamshire for the early part of the season.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 6, 2013
Taylor was harder on himself than anyone, making personal reconnaissances by Jeep, risking injury unnecessarily by sitting stubbornly at a staff table while shells fell in the courtyard outside.
From Time Magazine Archive
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As an intelligence officer, Mowat is particularly vulnerable when he delivers messages and undertakes reconnaissances.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Since then there have been three major reconnaissances of nerves.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The first railroad put across those mountains cost twenty-five thousand miles of reconnaissances and fifteen thousand miles of instrument surveys.
From Whispering Smith by Wyeth, N. C. (Newell Convers)
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