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Consider the following sentences where the word 'descry' (meaning to catch sight of or discern) has been used: S1: Standing on the crow's nest, the lookout was able to descry a tiny speck of land on the horizon. S2: A keen investigator can descry the subtle patterns of fraud hidden within thousands of pages of bank statements. S3: Through the thick morning fog, we could just barely descry the outline of the approaching ship. In how many of the given sentences is the underlined word used correctly?