on the lookout for
idiom
: looking or searching for (something or someone)
An avid shopper, she was always on the lookout for sales.
The police are on the lookout for two men who escaped from custody yesterday.
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Paris By Emma Specter This Vogue.com contributor loves a wedding and is always on the lookout for couples to feature in the Living section (and on her own site, Over The Moon).
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Alexandra MacOn, Vogue, 14 June 2024
Raimund Linke Shane Williams is always on the lookout for dead kangaroos.
—Sophie Hartley, Ars Technica, 2 Apr. 2024
In a time when tequila enthusiasts are constantly on the lookout for their next top-shelf obsession, O’RTE Reposado Single Estate Tequila is quickly becoming the toast of the town, both in the Garden State and the Big Apple.
—Pressmate, New York Daily News, 4 Mar. 2024
That, too, was expensive—but not as expensive as controlling a zone of internal rebellion, armed to the teeth by its many foreign partners and on the lookout for any Russian vulnerability.
—Liana Fix, Foreign Affairs, 4 Mar. 2022
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Alexandra MacOn, Vogue, 14 June 2024
Raimund Linke Shane Williams is always on the lookout for dead kangaroos.
—Sophie Hartley, Ars Technica, 2 Apr. 2024
In a time when tequila enthusiasts are constantly on the lookout for their next top-shelf obsession, O’RTE Reposado Single Estate Tequila is quickly becoming the toast of the town, both in the Garden State and the Big Apple.
—Pressmate, New York Daily News, 4 Mar. 2024
That, too, was expensive—but not as expensive as controlling a zone of internal rebellion, armed to the teeth by its many foreign partners and on the lookout for any Russian vulnerability.
—Liana Fix, Foreign Affairs, 4 Mar. 2022
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“On the lookout for.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/on%20the%20lookout%20for. Accessed 28 Jun. 2024.
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