exploratory

Ask exploratory questions: If I moved near you, what would that be like for you?

In 1973, a Turkish official made an exploratory dive to check out a report that sponge divers had brought handfuls of brilliantly colored glass from the bottom of a bay called Serçe Limani.

Partisanship was in many ways alien to Cowley’s probing and genially learned critical temperament, which Mr. Howard describes as “Emersonian, humanistic, exploratory.”

Veldink has agreed to join an exploratory committee to examine options for the plant, including attracting a data center, though he’s unsure of the best path forward.

Brazil's state oil giant Petrobras this month started exploratory drilling near the mouth of the Amazon River, an area considered a promising new oil frontier.