lookout
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They maintain lookout towers, water stations and strategic corridors of cleared land among the pines, typically 55 yards wide.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
The city was also on the lookout for executives who would also be supportive of the administration’s agenda.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
He added that the investigation remains ongoing and that police across the city have been asked to lookout for the potential suspects.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Dobrindt said that officers at train stations, airports and Germany's borders had been alerted to be on the lookout for Ballout.
From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 2026
“The ears have to always be turning, on the lookout for danger.”
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
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
It found the vessels did not have "dedicated lookouts" in what were "patchy conditions".
From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2025
The summit of Pilchuck features one of the best-preserved fire lookouts in Washington, with amazing views of the Cascade volcanoes and the Olympic Mountains.
From Seattle Times ● May 16, 2024
Ahead, Dede and Patria are turning in all directions like lookouts on the mast of a ship.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
Vocabulary lists containing lookout
"Return to Titanic" and "Talking with Robert Ballard"
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