as in excursion
a short trip for pleasure
an occasional sortie to the city to rummage through some of its numerous used-book stores
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Recent Examples of sortie
Future sorties will push the sensor suite’s limits, gathering imagery to refine tracking algorithms and prove out data-delivery timelines.
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Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 8 Aug. 2025
The Chinese Navy and Air Force have been sending planes and vessels on sorties around the island.
—Dexter Filkins, New Yorker, 14 July 2025
The group flew more than 15,000 sorties and destroyed more than 100 German aircraft.
—Marley Malenfant, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
But the biggest one is the headline figure of almost 22,000 combat sorties, of which 11,691 were strike missions.
—David Hambling, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
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Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 8 Aug. 2025
The Chinese Navy and Air Force have been sending planes and vessels on sorties around the island.
—Dexter Filkins, New Yorker, 14 July 2025
The group flew more than 15,000 sorties and destroyed more than 100 German aircraft.
—Marley Malenfant, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
But the biggest one is the headline figure of almost 22,000 combat sorties, of which 11,691 were strike missions.
—David Hambling, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sortie
Noun
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Shore excursions are designed to maximize time in the historic capital, but the result is often an exhausting day.—
David Nikel,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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Picking an exact landing site will take some time, although NASA will place the mission in the south pole region of the moon where ice and other critical minerals may be available for astronauts to use for future excursions.—
Elizabeth Howell,
Space.com,
16 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Despite being signed to the culture-changing label Sub Pop for four albums in the 2000s, Fruit Bats never achieved the same level of acclaim as many of their labelmates, like the Shins and Sleater Kinney, and Johnson disbanded the collective at the end of its 2013 tour.—
Daniel Kohn,
Rolling Stone,
14 Sep. 2025
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Bargatze has released six comedy specials, hosted two episodes of Saturday Night Live and sold millions of stand-up tour tickets.—
Monica Mercuri,
Forbes.com,
14 Sep. 2025
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“Sortie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sortie. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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