poke around

Then he had a poke around in his box.

The seeming source, a 2014 travel magazine article, describes “imposing houses with beautiful courtyards, simple on the outside, but flowery inside. To poke around this neighborhood is to discover high ivy-covered walls, lattice doors, miniature fountains and stony soils.”

Acland says she decided to “poke around” into Gino’s work in September 2023, after the researcher filed a $25 million lawsuit against HBS and the data sleuths who uncovered the misconduct.

A team from Anchorage finally arrives to take the bodies away, despite Danvers’s desire to poke around them a little more for clues.

Or poke around on social media for upcoming events.