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  • verb Present participle of recon.

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Examples

  • When I was in Vietnam I used to do a lot of recon work, and next thing you know I was back in the bush, reconning a vill again.

    Brigid Brett: Small Ceremonies Brigid Brett 2011

  • When I was in Vietnam I used to do a lot of recon work, and next thing you know I was back in the bush, reconning a vill again.

    Brigid Brett: Small Ceremonies Brigid Brett 2011

  • When I was in Vietnam I used to do a lot of recon work, and next thing you know I was back in the bush, reconning a vill again.

    Brigid Brett: Small Ceremonies Brigid Brett 2011

  • Low interest rates and money printing are defering the day of reconning.

    DO AS I SAY... 2009

  • Instead, he has spent nearly two trillion dollars trying to save Wall Street billionairs from ever facing the reconning they so richly deserve.

    The GDP drops 6.1 percent. Ann Althouse 2009

  • More of the shooting and reconning will be done by robotic tanks.

    Heroism and the possibility of death frankwu 2007

  • For is it not written here, ‘On the day of the reconning, he who is without spoon will be cast out into the dark place with the forkey-pokey guys in the red outfits.’

    Think Progress » Anti-Muslim Congressman Has ‘No Intention Of Apologizing’ 2006

  • Since DCBS had the first issue at 75% off, I decided to go ahead and order it; thankfully it turns out to be a rather good start to a new series, presenting an interesting new status quo for The Demon and his alter ego, Jason Blood, without reconning or making a radical change to the character.

    Archive 2005-03-01 David S. Carter 2005

  • He picked the next town more carefully, spent longer reconning in the area, studying the rhythms of life.

    The Third Victim Gardner, Lisa 1988

  • Ye that hide your guilty faces by day, and prowl like outlaws about by night, robbing the wives and mothers of your noble defenders of their little means, while they are far away facing the enemy, do you think ye can escape a just and damning vengeance when the day of reconning comes?

    Vance's Proclamation 1862-1865 : Vance 1863

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