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What does espying mean?

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Verb
  1. present participle of espy
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Only John Melia, a spokesman for Local 1-2 of the Utility Workers Union of America, the union representing the locked-out workers, grows impassioned, in the manner of a kamikaze pilot espying a large aircraft carrier.
Espying her son, now released, in the distance, she is unable to contain her maternal joy.
The first wars of the 21st century have also unfolded there, in Afghanistan, Iraq, western Sudan and Lebanon. This being so, the West has a long history of espying new spectres in the region.
They were in bathing costume, and Miss Lee, espying Arch, fastened upon him without ceremony.
They spide a knight, that towards pricked faire, And him beside an aged Squire there rode, He them espying, gan himselfe prepare, And on his arme address his goodly shield.
Chelsea break, through Mata, and Borceanu, espying his friends to left and right, flings himself into a foul, earning a yellow card.

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