probe
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Last week, Cook declined to attend a hearing in the White House's probe into mortgage fraud allegations, which she denies.
From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026
Plus: Senators probe Google AI in schools and AI finds bug that puts 70% of websites at risk.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
The probe also found there to be a "significant disconnect" between those working in the control room and NESO's leadership.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
There’s been finger-pointing, litigation and a grand jury probe into how a $1.9-billion choo-choo has become a $3.3-billion boondoggle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
“Stop complaining,” Elliot said, reaching over to stick the last probe onto my forehead.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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To improve reliability and reduce the risk of false readings, the team proposes combining several probes designed to recognize different cellular structures.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026
In federal corruption probes, agents often begin by focusing on lower-level targets with a goal of working their way up to more prominent figures.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026
Having been subjected to multiple FCC probes of ABC’s programming, the corporation has pushed back in court against Carr, in what has already amounted to a drawn-out and expensive legal tussle.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026
Chief Constable Mark Hobrough said the force would normally see two or three murder probes a year, but has launched 11 in the past 10 months.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
At the Rad Lab, Wilson contributed ingenious improvements to the cyclotron, among them a rubber gasket allowing probes to be inserted and withdrawn from the chamber without compromising the vacuum.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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Phillips was additionally probed by the House Ethics Committee for allegedly hiring a girlfriend to intern in Collins’ office.
From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2026
Walter’s system is now being probed by federal prosecutors and the Securities and Exchange Commission, including whether the connections were properly disclosed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
"This was the first time that shock-compressed diamond was probed with X-ray diffraction all the way up to melting," said Millot.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
It is not known whether these issues were probed further.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
He probed at the opening of the pouch with a stick, loosening it.
From "Ruby Holler" by Sharon Creech
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Trailing a play in transition during the third quarter, Kessler saw Doncic methodically probing the lane.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
Yet Wedgewood also lied to media outlets that did ask probing questions about its methods, so that explanation is hard to take at face value.
From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2026
He was eager to get on the ball, was constantly probing and prompting, all before he inevitably tired after the break.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
As Hanns-Christoph Nägerl says: "The discovery of fractional Fermi seas shows how far we can push quantum simulation: not only reproducing known models, but creating and probing states that go beyond established paradigms."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026
I developed a mental image of reporters as human ferrets— steadily sniffing, darting, probing for some way to trick me, somehow to comer me in our interview exchanges.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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