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  • verb Present participle of sortie.

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Examples

  • Additionally, when the vote occurred, Bush was already dramatically ramping up our military presence in the area, building sortieing bases in Qatar and the like.

    Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Hillary Hits Obama: We Need A "Hands On" President 2009

  • Additionally, when the vote occurred, Bush was already dramatically ramping up our military presence in the area, building sortieing bases in Qatar and the like.

    Hillary Hits Obama: We Need A "Hands On" President 2009

  • What we need from our daily newspaper is a renewed effort to separate the wheat from the chafe: veteran reporters asking tougher questions on any and every policy question; astute columnists, like Howard Troxler and Adam Smith, laser focusing in on this critical race, rather than sortieing in every now and then to cover it.

    Maybe, just maybe, the Times is partially responsible for St. Pete voters' apathy Peter Schorsch 2009

  • Soon after 11.00 the Italians saw a group of around forty British Crusader tanks approaching from the north-east at high speed, and sent sixteen M-13s out to engage them, rather in the manner of medieval knights sortieing out from a castle.

    Sealing Their Fate David Downing 2009

  • Though the capability exists, the probability of a major Orange [Japanese] Task Force sortieing against Blue [American] shipping or naval vessels East of the Philippines seems unlikely and a venture involving more risk than the Japanese are believed ready or able to assume.

    Sea of Thunder Evan Thomas 2006

  • Though the capability exists, the probability of a major Orange [Japanese] Task Force sortieing against Blue [American] shipping or naval vessels East of the Philippines seems unlikely and a venture involving more risk than the Japanese are believed ready or able to assume.

    Sea of Thunder Evan Thomas 2006

  • Hounded by a flotilla of Krivak II frigates sortieing from Arkhangelsk and by flights of Ka-27 Helix-A ASW helicopters from air stations ashore, it was forced to the surface after a three-hour chase that pinned it against the coast in shallow water, then sunk by torpedoes fired from the Kynda-class cruiser Groznyy.

    Countdown Douglass, Keith 1994

  • The Soviets were sortieing their ballistic missile submarines at intervals of one sub every four hours.

    Red Storm Rising Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1986

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