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
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
On Centre Court he perches on the public seats on the lookout for any movement.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
I was huddled against the side of the gazebo, peering through the wooden lattice, on the lookout for Recruiters.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
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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
An oil tanker and cargo ship that crashed in the North Sea did not have "dedicated lookouts" in what were "patchy conditions", an interim report has found.
From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2025
Many of the original panoramas were taken from fire lookouts — in some cases on the roofs.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 1, 2023
By the time the goblin lookouts see the army coming, it will be too late.
From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
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