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exploration

[ek-spluh-ray-shuhn] / ˌɛk spləˈreɪ ʃən /


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The agency expects its lunar missions to support scientific discoveries, generate economic benefits, and encourage the development of technologies needed for more ambitious space exploration.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2026

The BCC is calling for an exploration of what a new relationship could look like, and offers nine options, including a customs union, a "Swiss-style" Single Market relationship, and a "Canada model" associate membership.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

Australian gas exploration company Santos and Papua New Guinea's national energy company Kumul Petroleum are among the other major partners.

From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026

For now, while exploration is ongoing into whether approving the vaccine to younger populations is warranted, doctors recommend paying close attention to any itchy patches, even areas of skin with no visible rash.

From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2026

European knowledge of Mount Everest depends on a long history of discovery, exploration, surveying and cartography.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

For this couple, like those featured in other such explorations, most of this spending is on items that result from choices, not necessities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

Users create maps, fictional diary entries, survival guides, found-footage videos and first-person explorations that collectively expand the world.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026

The key is to regularly engage in more than purely intellectual explorations of economic policy and investment strategy.

From Barron's ● May 25, 2026

The explorations in “Kafkaesque” are ranging and free-associative.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026

Aristotle was remarkable for his explorations of natural phenomena, studying, for example, the development of the chicken embryo within the egg.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton


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