probing
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With the Department of Justice, the SEC and state insurance regulators probing Mark Walter’s businesses, the Dodgers owner has a lot on the line.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
Police are now probing how the thieves were able to enter the museum without triggering its alarms and who may have been responsible.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
For now, the authorities are probing the various cyclospora outbreaks as if they are distinct, but it is possible they are related and investigators so far haven’t been able to connect them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
An adviser’s recommendations may not always be pleasing to hear, but they flow from a more complete understanding of a client’s situation based on detailed fact-finding, probing and insight into the client’s needs.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
We are evolving into the situation of a Skinner pigeon in a Skinner box, peering about in all directions, trying to make connections, probing.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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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
He had time for self-analysis, for remorse, for the fierce probings of conscience.
From Garrison's Finish : a romance of the race course by W. B. M. (William Blair Morton) Ferguson