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probing

[proh-bing] / ˈproʊ bɪŋ /


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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

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




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