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stake out
Idioms and Phrases
Keep an area or person under police surveillance; also, assign someone to conduct such a surveillance. For example, They staked out the house , or He was staked out in the alley, watching for drug dealers . [c. 1940]Example Sentences
The device found March 2 is similar to other equipment used by burglars who want to learn the schedules of their would-be victims without having to stake out a neighborhood.
A handful of EV makers are still trying to stake out territory in the burgeoning industry, though none have had the widespread success of Elon Musk’s Tesla.
Nor did we stake out bold ideas for young voters, who increasingly voted Republican.
A MasterCard executive is unlikely to stake out the bettor’s friend as he walks his dog, as the leader of one gambling operation allegedly did to Shohei Ohtani in 2023, but credit card debt is not exactly safe.
Alito and Thomas do not appear to make much effort to win over their colleagues when they stake out fringe positions.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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