lookout
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A prior warning by the Treasury Department directed banks to be on the lookout for employers that may be committing payroll fraud by employing undocumented immigrants.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
Nobody - not the police, not his family, not a single witness - had ever accused him of being the lookout, prosecutor John Price KC told the jury.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
But with Dodger Stadium, the marine layer angle jumped out at me because I’m always on the lookout for relatable ways to tell the climate change story.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
Jarvis and Sir Keir are also on the lookout for a new armed forces minister, after the bizarre resignation of Al Carns.
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026
The lookout had never seen the colors before.
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
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Instead, they act as digital lookouts who hunt for coveted vintage apartments that are otherwise hard to find without expertise.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026
They had plate numbers and makes and models of cars, and sometimes even VINs; they had scouts and lookouts; they had canvassed businesses and compiled surveillance footage.
From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2025
Britain's marine safety body has called for a "radical rethink" over the use of ship lookouts "in the digital age" following a fatal collision in the North Sea and three other incidents.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2025
Many of the original panoramas were taken from fire lookouts — in some cases on the roofs.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 1, 2023
A nearby barn'd be found, lookouts posted for gavvas if we couldn't pay 'em off, an' my dad'd challenge all comers.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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