probing
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Right now the bond markets are like a pack of wolves stalking red deer, probing for weaknesses.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
The deal comes as U.S. regulators are probing Walter’s insurance empire, and he has been refinancing assets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
A nurse, who was visibly unsettled and asked not to be identified, told AFP that the hospital was probing the circumstances of the fire and "doesn't want its reputation to be damaged any further".
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
Instead of gently probing nuclei, researchers collide them at the highest energies available and reconstruct their shapes from the patterns left behind.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026
To survive, he is out there constantly preying upon others, probing for any human weakness like a ferret.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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
These early science-fiction tales explored the Universe; they were probings, speculations, as to where we could go.
From The Black Star Passes by John Wood Campbell
