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spy out

verb

  1. to discover by careful observation

    to spy out a route

  2. to make a close scrutiny of

    to spy out the land

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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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.â€

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She enticed into her house the party Odysseus dispatched to spy out the land, and there she changed them into swine.

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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."

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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."

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But the CIA did get its spy out of Russia in 2017, and the question now is why.

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