spy out
Britishverb
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to discover by careful observation
to spy out a route
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to make a close scrutiny of
to spy out the land
Example Sentences
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But one month later the Times accused “all Northern California” of conspiring against “Southland,” sending agents to “spy out the land and send the tenderfoot northward.”
From Los Angeles Times
On Monday, the CIA slammed what it called CNN's "misguided" and "simply false" reporting, after Sciutto -- the cable channel's chief national security correspondent -- authored a hole-filled piece claiming the CIA had pulled a high-level spy out of Russia because President Trump had "repeatedly mishandled classified intelligence and could contribute to exposing the covert source as a spy."
From Fox News
The CIA on Monday evening slammed what it called CNN's "misguided" and "simply false" reporting, after the cable channel's chief national security correspondent, Jim Sciutto, authored a hole-filled piece claiming that the CIA had pulled a high-level spy out of Russia because Trump had "repeatedly mishandled classified intelligence and could contribute to exposing the covert source as a spy."
From Fox News
But the CIA did get its spy out of Russia in 2017, and the question now is why.
From Fox News
The White House and the CIA rebuked CNN Tuesday for its widely challenged report claiming the CIA had pulled a high-level spy out of Russia after President Trump “mishandled” classified material – saying the report was wrong and could put lives at risk.
From Fox News
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