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exploration

[ek-spluh-rey-shuhn] / ˌɛk spləˈreɪ ʃən /


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The 2022 Decadal Survey from the National Academies identified it as the highest priority destination for future exploration.

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026

Range Resources, another exploration and production player that focuses primarily on natural gas, has risen an impressive 23% year to date.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

He then served as head of the national space agency in 2013, overseeing a lunar exploration mission that culminated in China’s first moon landing with an unmanned vehicle.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

A pulsing exploration of party culture and collective movement, it's a departure from the tender, introspective ballads on her Mercury Prize-winning debut, Collapsed In Sunbeams and its 2023 follow-up, My Soft Machine.

From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026

I try to imagine his village, Werowocomoco, and hope that soon I will be allowed on one of Captain Smith’s exploration trips so that I’ll see an Indian village for myself.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone