scout
noun
a soldier, warship, airplane, etc., employed in reconnoitering.
scouts
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pluralof scout.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
The initial recommendation came from scouts, and given Alvarez was not a player originally identified by his metrics, the data team had to take a closer look.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
But Randolph disputes the idea African scouting is now saturated, citing a number of areas that remain relatively undiscovered, often because of conflict or logistics, with scouts drawn to the region's biggest cities.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
Gamble’s first scouts rode back to report that the Rebs had gone into camp just down the road, about three miles out of Gettysburg.
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
