prober
Example Sentences
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A prober of silences, Sante writes about the tens of thousands of anonymous men, many of them immigrants and African Americans, who toiled on these projects, often living in hastily constructed settlements, leaving few traces.
From New York Times • Aug. 8, 2022
She’s a prober, but not a heavy-handed one.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 24, 2021
"People were very careful," says one prober of the Iranscam schemers.
From Time Magazine Archive
He is not a methodical reformer, a dynamic organizer, but a prober, a prelate who says aloud what others may think in silence, who raises critical but often embarrassing questions for debate.
From Time Magazine Archive
Speaking of it afterward, the old Hessian said: "'Dot Colonel's reading vos fine, but he dond vos haf dot prober look uf regret vot he ought to haf had'—but here comes the Professor."
From The Comstock Club by Goodwin, Charles Carroll
