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 the CIA did get its spy out of Russia in 2017, and the question now is why.
From Fox News • Sep. 11, 2019
A Washington wife discovers her computer-salesman husband is a spy out to stop nuclear terrorists.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 2019
Patricia Clarkson returns as Jane Davis, head of clandestine services, a cool spy out of an overheated John le Carré novel.
From Slate • Nov. 1, 2018
“Can you take the spy out of it, and still make it work?” he says.
From Washington Post • Mar. 15, 2016
She enticed into her house the party Odysseus dispatched to spy out the land, and there she changed them into swine.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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