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[look-out] / ˈlʊkˌaʊt /


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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

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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