probe
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The Justice Department ultimately dropped its probe into Paxton.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
To probe this further, we’ll be going back to Kariba in search of more fossils.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
He announced other measures including the appointment of a dedicated staff member to support individuals reporting sexual misconduct, and inviting specialized New York State Police detectives to probe future sexual assault allegations.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026
For more serious scarring, dermatologists can recommend more aggressive treatments such as lasers that probe deeper into the skin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
In Calcutta, I knew, every accent is a surgical probe.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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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
She also contended that substantial FBI resources were diverted to such probes, and that she was retaliated against for questioning their legality.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
The Justice Department hasn’t concluded whether to bring additional charges against Castro, they said, adding the investigation is ongoing and such probes take time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
"Pulsar timing arrays are usually thought of as probes of supermassive black-hole binaries in the relatively recent Universe," said Ilie.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
As anyone at JPL will tell you, probes are delicate things.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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OpenAI has come under scrutiny for a spate of security incidents in which its AI agents escaped containment and in some cases hacked other companies or aggressively probed third-party websites.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
So while he gave senior international caps to 62 players during that span, he hardly probed the depths of the American talent pool.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
Phillips was additionally probed by the House Ethics Committee for allegedly hiring a girlfriend to intern in Collins’ office.
From Slate ● Aug. 27, 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
The few times I asked her she said business blah-blah, and since that is something I know absolutely nothing about and have no interest in, I never probed any further.
From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez
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“NAZA” eschews probing for guilty feelings, though, because the point is to unearth a process of obliteration: how it works and what it looks like as implemented by the willing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
ICE and Homeland Security Investigations are probing the case.
From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026
Investigators say they are probing whether Iran or an Islamist group had orchestrated the plot, according to officials familiar with the matter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
Police are probing any links to Iran, the paper says.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
“Someone—the door—why doesn't the door-voice tell us—” Under the door-sill, a slow, probing sniff, an exhalation of electric steam.
From "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury
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