probing
Example Sentences
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Investigators are probing the cause of a fire that burned a section of a large automotive glass plant near Dayton, Ohio, that supplies components to several major automakers.
“Giant” is a probing character study that raises the discomfiting question of how a man of intelligence and imagination could hold such atavistic and pernicious views.
Media reports said investigators were probing whether airport traffic controllers were distracted by a separate odor issue on a United Airlines flight -- the emergency to which the fire truck was responding.
From Barron's
UK health authorities are probing 27 cases linked to a deadly meningitis outbreak believed to have spread at a nightclub in southeast England.
From Barron's
Above us hammer blows and splintering wood showed where a squad of trained searchers was probing for the secret room.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
