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probe

[prohb] / proʊb /




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Despite its promise, the Uranus Orbiter and Probe is still far from becoming reality.

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026

The Parker Solar Probe has flown within shouting distance of the sun.

From Slate • Dec. 9, 2025

Appeared in the October 24, 2025, print edition as 'U.S. to Probe China’s Compliance With 2020 Deal'.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025

These X-rays are what the Einstein Probe detected.

From Space Scoop • Jul. 23, 2025

Probe for the invisible cracks through which one might fall out of the white glass ball, and fall, and fall, and fall....An unrelaxable tension little by little took hold of all my muscles.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin




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