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The ROK Air Force then sortied its fighters, including about 80 fifth-generation F-35As.

From Washington Times • Nov. 4, 2022

While his classmates flew long, bitterly cold patrols at the front that winter, young Stalin sortied into Moscow.

From Time Magazine Archive

Five weeks ago, in the midst of the rioting that gripped the quiet city of Masan during Korea's presidential elections, a 16-year-old student named Kim Chu Yul sortied out into Masan's streets and never returned.

From Time Magazine Archive

She donned trousers, overcoat, slouch felt hat, a false-diamond stickpin and a false black mustache, and sortied into Mexican society.

From Time Magazine Archive

When they came opposite the rock which had sheltered Johnny they sortied to see if that part of the mesa was guarded, but there was no sign of life upon it.

From Hopalong Cassidy by Mulford, Clarence E.