exploratory

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Exploratory spacecraft can take 10 years or more to develop and require the assemblage of teams of trained engineers, designers, and other professionals.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2025

Exploratory behavior out of mutual curiosity among children around the same age is fairly typical.

From Salon • Apr. 24, 2024

Exploratory types are constantly looking for the best food: prey which are easy to digest.

From Science Daily • Jan. 10, 2024

Exploratory drilling is expensive and uncertain, and industry leaders say government backing is required to make that initial phase manageable for companies.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 13, 2023

Exploratory telegraphy seems likely to claim a position in the twentieth century economics of mining, its particular rôle being to aid in the determination of the "strike" of mineral-bearing lodes.

From Twentieth Century Inventions A Forecast by Sutherland, George