as in person
a member of the human race
you're a good scout
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as in to mock
to make (someone or something) the object of unkind laughter
the actor's attempt to rationalize his racist comments were roundly scouted by the media
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Recent Examples of scout
Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 5 Jan. 2026
Ewers, a seventh-round pick out of Texas, has hardly taken any first-team practice reps, instead running the scout team most of the season.
—CBS News, 21 Dec. 2025
Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 7 Jan. 2026
Will their reduction on the scouting side come back to bite them here?
—Patrick Mooney, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2026
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Noun
More than that, Sullivan has playing experience — albeit in college — and worked his way up to the vice president of player development after initially entering the league as a scout.
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Others were scouted out their frames on Instagram while some were in the market for something with very specific qualities (under-bed storage, an upholstered design, something headboard-less).
—Recent Examples of Synonyms for scout
Noun
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Earlier that evening, Garden Grove police had been contacted by the Santa Ana Police Department, which was investigating a possible missing-person case after the woman failed to report to work, police said.—
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The occasional person on a walk or shopper at one of the barely dozen stores still open, but the sound inside the mall is mostly just silence.—
Verb
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Many users on social media mocked the team for the design.—
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When hackers reveal his identity and expose it to the public, he is ridiculed, mocked, and threatened.—
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Wouldn’t be surprised if a few cheerleaders and equipment guys are looking to leave, too.—
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The guy in the back seat with me was just, like, trying to strike up small talk.—
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Mamdani has many bold ideas to address this—some of which have been ridiculed—and not all will be achieved.—
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Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.—
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Georgia grows tired of her husband and their nightly trips to the fancy French restaurant and decides to have an affair with another man at another table (Alan Howard).—
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Minutes later, police received a call from a different location from a man who said he’d been shot by federal officers and was requesting help, according to Day and dispatch audio.—
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The woman running the daycare had attempted life-saving measures on the child before emergency services arrived, First Alert 4 reported.—
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Those on the right, determined to make the case that this was an officer killing in self-defense, should instead be beginning with this utter failure to protect the life of a civilian protester and de-escalate the situation through some means other than shooting a fellow American in the head.—
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David Bowie personally appears on the cover of 24 of his solo albums, depicting himself as a bowl-cut heartthrob, an androgynous blond, a space alien in human disguise, a cigarette-smoking lounge creature, a sideways pair of legs, and an oddly undersized boxer.—
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Not to mention the titular bugs, a swarm of blood-invading creatures discovered by her new lover, the mysterious drifter Peter Evans (Namir Smallwood).—
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“Scout.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scout. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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