probing
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With the Department of Justice, the SEC and state insurance regulators probing Mark Walter’s businesses, the Dodgers owner has a lot on the line.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 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
Mr. Potter is less interested combing through the Caesars’ allegedly lurid deeds than probing the workings of the state.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
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
Anyway, I’ve been subtly probing Maddie’s interest in Brij all night by asking sly questions, such as, “Hey, wasn’t that binder Brij made so cool?”
From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon
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
Thus far, he had gone about his probings with skill, questioning her in a roundabout way, trying to learn by means of inference.
From Maurice Guest by Henry Handel Richardson
