probing
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The move comes in the wake of a series of security incidents in which its OpenAI agents escaped containment, hacking some company websites and aggressively probing a range of websites.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
ICE and Homeland Security Investigations are probing the case.
From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026
Right now the bond markets are like a pack of wolves stalking red deer, probing for weaknesses.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 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
Yossarian turned slowly to gaze at Milo with probing distrust.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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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
Sibyl had that innate tact which is born in some natures, and always knew where to pause in her probings and questionings.
From Daddy's Girl by L. T. Meade