probe
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Bradnam said he had only recently been able to contact the probe due to health issues and a family bereavement.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
It is the highest-ever price paid for a sports team and comes as Walter’s business is facing a federal probe.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
A group of university academics last week wrote to Prentice slamming Arday's appointment and asking her to appoint an independent body to probe what happened.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
By using light to probe this delicate quantum state, the physicists uncovered properties that had previously been extremely difficult to observe.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026
However, after a while I came away; my friend is just a little too sane at present to make it safe to probe him too deep with questions.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
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The lightning-quick sale of the Lakers to Bob Iger and Joshua Kushner comes as Mark Walter faces federal probes into allegedly conflicted insurance loans.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
These quasiparticles serve as highly sensitive optical probes that can reveal both the crystal itself and the collective motion occurring within it.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026
Chinese researchers say corruption probes can trigger a market selloff on companies seen as linked to a suspect or affected by an industry crackdown.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
The University of Cambridge said Friday that it would be reviewing its hiring process for senior roles as it probes claims of plagiarism by a professor who resigned this week.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
Leaning forward, heads down, they used the butts of their weapons as probes, wading across the field to the river and then turning and wading back again.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
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It is not known whether these issues were probed further.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
“It’s easy to imagine that in six to 12 months, every application that’s facing the internet in some way is being probed by a genius-level cybersecurity attacker in the form of an agent.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 2, 2026
The business empire of Dodgers and Lakers owner Mark Walter reportedly is being probed by the U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
The Securities and Exchange Commission has opened enforcement investigations into several large private-credit managers, and regulators have probed the exposure that banks have to the industry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026
On the day of Garfield's shooting, Drs. Townshend, Bliss, and Wales probed the president's bullet wound with unwashed fingers and unsterilized metal instruments.
From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow
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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
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
Public hearings -- tasked with probing the factors leading to Australia's deadliest mass shooting -- have started to receive testimony about the role social media plays in the spread of antisemitism.
From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026
Oil futures resumed their decline and were again probing pre-war levels as the market focuses on increased flows out of the Persian Gulf.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
“I am,” said the old man, his eyes soft and probing.
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
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