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probing

[proh-bing] / ˈproʊ bɪŋ /


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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

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

Police are probing any links to Iran, the paper says.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

At the sound of Reed’s footsteps, he turned, dead gray eyes probing.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee

Patients have turned to him after watching graphic videos of his healing rituals, which include nasal probings, body incisions and eye scrapings.

From New York Times ● Dec. 11, 2018

The probings about driver versus three-wood had lost steam.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2015

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

Yet with our searchings and our probings, who knows more of the human heart to-day than the old Psalmist?

From Modern American Prose Selections by Byron J. (Byron Johnson) Rees




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