- present participle of probe.
probing
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Police are probing any links to Iran, the paper says.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
Researchers are probing scales as small as 10-20 meters at the LHC, a distance that is to an atom, what an atom is to a human.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026
The deal comes as U.S. regulators are probing Walter’s insurance empire, and he has been refinancing assets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Does she care about Leo, or does she want to keep probing that pain and that trauma?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
The man’s probing eyes searched me bottom to top, and I detected disgust as he sighted my scar.
From "The Ugly One" by Leanne Statland Ellis
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
But Linforth made no answer to Ralston's probings.
From The Broken Road by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
