probe
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The federal probe announced Wednesday is expected to look into those conditions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
A wide-ranging probe by the department’s internal watchdog is scrutinizing potential improprieties in the contracting process, including evidence of personal enrichment by top officials, report Tarini Parti, Josh Dawsey, Michelle Hackman and Summer Said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
On Monday, Take-Two said its probe was “rapidly evolving,” which leads us to the unfortunate conclusion that the “GTA VI” leaks are seemingly being investigated more thoroughly than the Epstein files.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
"The Earth-ionosphere cavity acts as a natural resonator that amplifies electromagnetic waves right around the mass range we wanted to probe."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026
It was just too big, but I only needed the probe itself.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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An inquiry commission set up to investigate the violence submitted its report in April and recommended further probes against several officials including Oli.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
There are Section 232 “national security” probes into everything from semiconductors to wind turbines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
To investigate the effect, the team used specialized microscope probes to map the shape of the wrinkles and measure local electrical energy and current.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
Sanft recounted decades of probes and noted that prior investigations did not take his client’s statements seriously because they were not credible.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
For redundancy, the supply probes had enough food to last the whole crew fifty-six days.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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Phillips was additionally probed by the House Ethics Committee for allegedly hiring a girlfriend to intern in Collins’ office.
From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2026
"This was the first time that shock-compressed diamond was probed with X-ray diffraction all the way up to melting," said Millot.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
After pinning Azan Awais with his first ball, the seamer probed Masood's outside edge from round the wicket before switching the angle of his attack in his third over.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
“It’s easy to imagine that in six to 12 months, every application that’s facing the internet in some way is being probed by a genius-level cybersecurity attacker in the form of an agent.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 2, 2026
Hands probed him gently, feeling his neck and back.
From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret
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Still, the new theoretical framework could give researchers a powerful way to expand future searches and use Earth's natural electromagnetic environment as a tool for probing some of the lightest possible forms of dark matter.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026
Investigators are still probing the accident but a preliminary report in April pointed to communication failures and a lack of proper equipment.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
It is uncertain whether that would satisfy the federal agencies probing potential wrongdoing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
Police are now probing how the thieves were able to enter the museum without triggering its alarms and who may have been responsible.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
His eyes were still probing the air all about her, and he was moving gradually closer, with an air of hardly noticing what he was doing.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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