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scout

[skaut] / skaʊt /




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Full disclosure: I didn’t study up before the road trip except to scout charging locations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

By age 19, he caught on with the Padres as an area scout.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026

I finally watched it again on the plane to New Zealand to scout locations in 2024.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

Hunting hidden gems - is there anywhere in the world left to scout?

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

He said, ‘Just having a look around. You should always scout a battlefield before the battle.’

From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan

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

An in-house real-estate team aggressively scouts and negotiates deals for prime locations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

After adding more than 15 people to the front office, president of basketball operations Rob Pelinka said, the Lakers were still focused on adding more scouts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

He set up the deception so that British scouts stopped his horseback couriers and grabbed the fake documents, thinking they were real.

From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen


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