prober

Example Sentences

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A prober of silences, Sante writes about the tens of thousands of anonymous men, many of them immigrants and African Americans, who toiled on these projects, often living in hastily constructed settlements, leaving few traces.

From New York Times • Aug. 8, 2022

She’s a prober, but not a heavy-handed one.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 24, 2021

The latest prober of the executive psyche, Washington Psychoanalyst Michael Maccoby, identifies four types.

From Time Magazine Archive

But a separate investigation proposed by Brian McCormally, a veteran prober in the Treasury Department's Office of Thrift Supervision, may have been aborted by higher-ups.

From Time Magazine Archive

The third prober rocket sent to Venus had been unreported for the tenth day after penetrating the clouds that hid that planet's surface from human eyes.

From The Secret of the Ninth Planet by Wollheim, Donald Allen