probing
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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
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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