probing
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Most obviously, Carrick, having deflected questions about the defender's outburst in the immediate aftermath of the game, will face more probing on the matter when he speaks to the media before Sunday's trip to Leeds.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
“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
OpenAI has recently faced a series of security incidents in which its artificial-intelligence agents escaped containment, hacking some company websites and aggressively probing a range of websites.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
ICE and Homeland Security Investigations are probing the case.
From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026
My therapist was Mary Fernandez, and I found her probing irritating.
From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
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
We shall see how the problems which have been indicated were attacked by successive thinkers, and how partial solutions gave occasion for deeper probings.
From Liberalism by L. T. (Leonard Trelawny) Hobhouse
