- present participle of probe.
probing
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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
UK accident investigators were on Saturday probing the cause of a train collision north of London which killed a driver and injured scores of passengers, nine critically.
From Barron's ● Jun. 20, 2026
O’Herlihy was intellectually hungry — always probing new territory, questioning why things had to be a certain way.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
Rarely are our viewpoints contested, and if they are, filmmakers frequently stop short of probing the truth.
From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2026
When you begin probing into the origins of aids and Marburg, the light fails and things go dark, but you sense hidden connections.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
The probings about driver versus three-wood had lost steam.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2015
So were his probings of the court records for murder cases against Jeffrey MacDonald, in his 2012 book “A Wilderness of Error,” and Randall Adams, in the 1988 film “The Thin Blue Line.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2014
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
These early science-fiction tales explored the Universe; they were probings, speculations, as to where we could go.
From The Black Star Passes by Campbell, John Wood
