- present participle of probe.
probing
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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
PARIS—French prosecutors are probing the death of a French modeling scout with ties to Jeffrey Epstein after he was found dead at his home outside the French capital this week.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Public hearings -- tasked with probing the factors leading to Australia's deadliest mass shooting -- have started to receive testimony about the role social media plays in the spread of antisemitism.
From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026
It has been investigating whether some of the country’s biggest egg producers coordinated on pricing and is probing whether meatpackers colluded to drive up beef prices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
To survive, he is out there constantly preying upon others, probing for any human weakness like a ferret.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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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
I began about Adam and Eve, with an eye to future parsonic probings.
From Elizabeth and Her German Garden by Elizabeth