scout
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The rover will scout out a landing site so that the MMX spacecraft itself can later touch down on Phobos.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
Full disclosure: I didn’t study up before the road trip except to scout charging locations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
They sometimes scout collegiate chess and poker tournaments, looking for people who are uncannily good at playing the odds and anticipating what will happen next.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
“I think every scout, if they scout for any length of time, is going to have one player that just is special to you. Jimmy Abbott was that,” Fontaine told JapanBall in 2022.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026
After a mile, he left her to scout.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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Coaches and scouts suggested the young and wiry Martínez might never develop into a pitcher as successful as his brother Ramon, but Claire did not fault them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026
Kerr left the Alaskan frontier believing baseball could be his future and was able to land a tryout for a pair of MLB scouts at a high school in Reno.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
Both Fontaines were scouts well ahead of the deep empirical and objective analysis of baseball data — sabermetrics is the catch-all term — that some believe has made scouts obsolete.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026
The results of the diligence completed by City's data team, scouts and other experts meant that even though Anderson's price increased beyond what City believed was his true valuation, they felt the risk was low.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
The next day the king’s scouts chanced upon an abandoned crofters’ village between two lakes—a mean and meagre place, no more than a few huts, a longhall, and a watchtower.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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