probing
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On Sunday, Nvidia announced that its board of directors was probing whether Huang, its longtime CEO, was targeted as part of a foreign-intelligence scheme.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 13, 2026
It’s tried funding smaller meatpackers to boost competition, probing meat companies for price-fixing with the Justice Department, and even calling grocery executives before the Fourth of July to ask about their beef prices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026
Before long, U.S. and Asian authorities were investigating whether her firm, Megaspeed, was illegally diverting Nvidia chips to China, and probing her suspected intelligence ties.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 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
Though at this distance she couldn’t see his eyes clearly, she felt his gaze on her, probing, questioning, lingering on her eyes, her lips, her face.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
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Patients have turned to him after watching graphic videos of his healing rituals, which include nasal probings, body incisions and eye scrapings.
From New York Times ● Dec. 11, 2018
The probings about driver versus three-wood had lost steam.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2015
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
He turned his attention to the well-dressed, impressive-looking man behind the plasticene desk, nor had his other probings taken more than a few seconds.
From Man of Many Minds by E. Everett (Edward Everett) Evans
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