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"Even though we believed these theories to be true, it's important to have an experimental realization, something you can poke and prod," Alicea says.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026

Meg, a charity media officer, would prod him throughout the night and try to coax him from his back to his side.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

Roberts beelined to him, cracking inside jokes to gently prod him out of his shell.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 28, 2026

At other moments, he suggested the kingdom was also in Iran’s sights if it didn’t prod Washington away from war, the officials said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026

He lowered the cattle prod, and it turned back to a staff.

From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan

He also gently prods them to define what success looks like.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026

That is, until an intriguing puzzle shakes up Felix’s otherwise sleepy summer and prods him to pay attention to his surroundings in a new way.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

A tradwife influencer’s public meltdown or toxic relationship prods at the artifice and hypocrisy of aspirational Christian content, but these scandals also reveal an uncomfortable relationship between creators and their audience.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2026

Attacking shots are causing England's downfall, not tentative prods.

From BBC ● Mar. 1, 2025

Ma prods me in the back with her cane, so I walk out of the kitchen ahead of her and into the dark hallway.

From "Dragons in a Bag" by Zetta Elliott

Maher prodded Trump in a monologue last Friday after attending a White House dinner alongside Kid Rock and ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith.

From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026

But several experts, prodded for any note of optimism they could find, offered hope from artificial intelligence.

From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026

But decades later the three, prodded by Elvira, go on a quest to understand what really happened to them and their parents.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026

In the next over, Bethell prodded at one from Will O'Rourke he could have left and edged to second slip.

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026

Sefia prodded the calluses forming on her hands and waited on the quarterdeck.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee

But dozens of Wall Street Journal readers have told me that their financial advisers are prodding them to put these funds in taxable accounts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

Massie has been one of the loudest House voices prodding the Trump administration to release more information on the sex offender and his accomplices.

From Slate ● May 19, 2026

Congress changed the law in 2018, after prodding by the industry, and doubled the debt limit to two times equity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026

In scenes strikingly reminiscent of Covid-era lockdowns, the LPG supply hit seems to be prodding a return of some migrant workers from big cities such as Mumbai.

From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2026

He would, although, paradoxically, it inflamed more than abated his homesickness to try a mouthful of a dish and pronounce, after some prodding, that it was too salty, too sweet, too spicy-hot.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen