probe
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The probe targets companies including Cemex and Sika over chemicals used in cement, concrete and mortar.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
The European Commission has not fully completed the probe it opened in 2023 into X.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
“It’s a test of the Senate’s willingness to probe the department’s operations and to actually serve as a check on the department and the administration more broadly.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
An independent probe concluded that the school’s response was insufficient and that it wasn’t clear who was handling allegations of wrongdoing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
"Based on travel duration and the supplies their astronaut has remaining, any such probe would have to be launched within a month. Even then he would starve a little."
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
France's weather agency Meteo-France filed a complaint in April after one of its weather probes was hacked in order to fix bets on Polymarkets.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
New York City inspectors are conducting safety probes into other construction sites in the city after a Midtown Manhattan conversion project was at risk of partial collapse last week.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
They added that there were "profound and stark" concerns as to airworthiness, but that no investigation had ever considered the issue despite several probes into the crash.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
SEC probes alleged insider trades that cost Susquehanna millions.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026
In other words, alpha particles produced naturally by radium and polonium had exhausted their usefulness as probes of the nucleus.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
The Securities and Exchange Commission has opened enforcement investigations into several large private-credit managers, and regulators have probed the exposure that banks have to the industry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026
As a result, the company’s rehiring practices were probed as part of an internal investigation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 21, 2026
The commission also probed the situation of nationals from 17 countries who were recruited -- either voluntarily or through deception -- to fight with Russian troops in Ukraine.
From Barron's ● Mar. 10, 2026
As they probed the earth, they smelt the dirt, looking for the distinctive odour of human remains.
From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2026
Lying back among her pillows and sipping the tea, she probed for her thought.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
The university employing some of the paper’s authors quickly announced an investigation, and Nature said last week it was probing the paper, which described a potential patch for delivering medicine to internal organs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
UK accident investigators were on Saturday probing the cause of a train collision north of London which killed a driver and injured scores of passengers, nine critically.
From Barron's ● Jun. 20, 2026
O’Herlihy was intellectually hungry — always probing new territory, questioning why things had to be a certain way.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
Rarely are our viewpoints contested, and if they are, filmmakers frequently stop short of probing the truth.
From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2026
As they began to snip, he searched his mind frantically for those clever probing questions.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
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