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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

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

British investigators are probing whether Iran or an Islamist group was behind a foiled attack on the RAF Fairford air base in western England.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

She lifted her head and met Robin’s probing gaze.

From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake

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

Their theme was our battery drill of some ten days before, a subject urged upon Flora by the mosquito-like probings of Madame's musically whined queries.

From Kincaid's Battery by Alonzo Kimball


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