Definition of "sortieing" []

• Present participle of sortie. (verb)

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• "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."
• "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."
• "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."