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Recent Examples of recon
According to the Department of Forestry and Fire Management, the fire remained in its footprint and a recon flight May 9 showed no very minimal activity.
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Madeline Nguyen, The Arizona Republic, 24 Apr. 2024
The girls join three other riders on a recon ride, where Ellie and Dina hang back and chat about the New Year’s Eve dance that night.
—Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 13 Apr. 2025
Kubrick immerses viewers in trench life and drains scenes of recon missions and battle of any glamor.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2024
F-16s fly recon missions, pinpoint Russian radars based on their emissions and then land so intelligence analysts can fold the fresh intelligence into strike planning.
—David Axe, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
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Madeline Nguyen, The Arizona Republic, 24 Apr. 2024
The girls join three other riders on a recon ride, where Ellie and Dina hang back and chat about the New Year’s Eve dance that night.
—Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 13 Apr. 2025
Kubrick immerses viewers in trench life and drains scenes of recon missions and battle of any glamor.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2024
F-16s fly recon missions, pinpoint Russian radars based on their emissions and then land so intelligence analysts can fold the fresh intelligence into strike planning.
—David Axe, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for recon
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But in reality, airplanes were used for guidance, observation and reconnaissance, aiding ground troops far more often than fighting other aviators in the sky.—
Lillian Ali,
Smithsonian Magazine,
25 July 2025
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Oleksandr Dmitriev, the founder of a Ukrainian system that centralizes feeds from thousands of drone crews across the frontline, told Reuters the outage was an example of the shortcomings of relying on cloud services for military operations, particularly battlefield drone reconnaissance.—
Stephen Clark,
ArsTechnica,
25 July 2025
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He was lured back to professional baseball with his first job as a scout with the San Diego Padres in 1967.—
Jon Paul Hoornstra,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 July 2025
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The platform aims to bridge the information and data gap between coaches, scouts, and student-athletes by offering tools that streamline data collection and provide transparency for both sides of the recruiting process.—
Karoline Leonard,
Austin American Statesman,
30 July 2025
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The king's ransom paid Apple for Google search priority has been called into question due to the government's antitrust case against Alphabet .—
Zev Fima,
CNBC,
1 Aug. 2025
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This widened the search area and led to her discovery.—
Gabrielle Rockson,
People.com,
1 Aug. 2025
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The annual 10-day hunt, which ran from July 11 to July 20, encouraged participants to remove invasive Burmese pythons from several locations in South Florida, according to The Palm Beach Post and Naples Daily News, part of the USA TODAY Network.—
Taylor Ardrey,
USA Today,
24 July 2025
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Ferguson improvised a song about the end of the egg hunt to calm his grandson down.—
Maia Nehme,
Charlotte Observer,
22 July 2025
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“Recon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/recon. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.
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