probing
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Nvidia announced Sunday that its board of directors is probing whether its CEO, Jensen Huang, was targeted as part of a foreign-intelligence scheme.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2026
Critics say this arrangement has sometimes blocked indictments by Japanese investigators, while the extraterritoriality of the US bases has deterred Japanese authorities from probing suspected soil pollution around them.
From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2026
Intriguingly, the team saw hackers scanning and probing their fake freezer sites only in Europe.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
That’s where various members introduce issues related to their areas of expertise, probing in areas like operating margins, optical innovation and workforce management, Herscher said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
As they started probing my legs, I turned to see Brew again.
From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers
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The probings about driver versus three-wood had lost steam.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2015
So were his probings of the court records for murder cases against Jeffrey MacDonald, in his 2012 book “A Wilderness of Error,” and Randall Adams, in the 1988 film “The Thin Blue Line.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2014
His finding echoes the results of similar probings by other researchers into the 2008 statistics.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 26, 2012
Matters of marriage, sex, science and womanhood are raised by Ruhl, a continually inventive playwright whose lyrical sense of the absurd is as acute as her insightful probings into the psyches of her quirky characters.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 28, 2011
A mortal disease was upon her before Cæsar had crossed the Rubicon; and Brutus did not restore her health by the deep probings of the senate-chamber.
From Successful Methods of Public Speaking by Grenville Kleiser
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