lookout
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The self-declared modern-day Miss Marple warned Kenny to be on the lookout for anyone acting differently, reasoning that "if you're suddenly a traitor, you're going to be a bit on high alert".
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
Those expectations arrive as Wall Street remains on the lookout for signs of weakness among consumers, whose spending has held up even as gas prices have climbed this year amid persistent inflation.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 13, 2026
Not until I am able to test it more fully, so be on the lookout for that review in a few weeks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
An info line would tell people to meet at a “map point,” often a gas station parking lot, where a party crew member stood as a lookout, ready to guide the crowd.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Orville Payne told me to be on the lookout for you.
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
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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
It found the vessels did not have "dedicated lookouts" in what were "patchy conditions".
From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2025
The Hostage Families Forum Headquarters, an umbrella body representing the families of those held captive, identified the five lookouts as Naama Levy, Agam Berger, Liri Albag, Karina Ariev and Daniela Gilboa.
From New York Times ● May 22, 2024
The plaza was empty, and he saw no lookouts on the paths, no boats on the water, no one on the distant bridge.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
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