probe
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The probe against Powell was dropped to smooth the way for Warsh's Senate confirmation, but the battle to fire Cook continues despite a Supreme Court decision nullifying an earlier attempt to do so.
From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026
Plus: Senators probe Google AI in schools and AI finds bug that puts 70% of websites at risk.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
The probe also found there to be a "significant disconnect" between those working in the control room and NESO's leadership.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
There’s been finger-pointing, litigation and a grand jury probe into how a $1.9-billion choo-choo has become a $3.3-billion boondoggle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
"So did countless other researchers, scientists, and engineers. Everyone poured their souls into construction while I waged a constant political battle to maintain funding. "In the end, we built a beautiful probe.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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No matter how deeply Rembrandt probes his subject, even when that subject is himself, the self eludes him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
In federal corruption probes, agents often begin by focusing on lower-level targets with a goal of working their way up to more prominent figures.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026
Having been subjected to multiple FCC probes of ABC’s programming, the corporation has pushed back in court against Carr, in what has already amounted to a drawn-out and expensive legal tussle.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026
The researchers used advanced recording devices called Neuropixels probes to monitor electrical signals from hundreds of individual neurons in the hippocampus.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026
I asked Professor Brown as she came over to help the technician remove the probes from my left leg with a painstaking slowness that set my teeth on edge.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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But the report includes details that investigators have probed in an effort to determine a cause.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
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
It is not known whether these issues were probed further.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
Rindlisbacher probed gently into what might’ve caused him to come across the median.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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Yet Wedgewood also lied to media outlets that did ask probing questions about its methods, so that explanation is hard to take at face value.
From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2026
As Hanns-Christoph Nägerl says: "The discovery of fractional Fermi seas shows how far we can push quantum simulation: not only reproducing known models, but creating and probing states that go beyond established paradigms."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026
Most obviously, Carrick, having deflected questions about the defender's outburst in the immediate aftermath of the game, will face more probing on the matter when he speaks to the media before Sunday's trip to Leeds.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
“NAZA” eschews probing for guilty feelings, though, because the point is to unearth a process of obliteration: how it works and what it looks like as implemented by the willing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
At the sound of Reed’s footsteps, he turned, dead gray eyes probing.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
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