poke around

So naturally, one of the first things I did was call up my favorite local restaurants and ask if I could poke around in their kitchens.

Though Tesla’s board shouted down a Wall Street Journal report this spring that it had looked into finding a successor for Musk, it would be asinine not to poke around.

When her friend and tintype mentor came to town, the pair went to Mills’ old property to poke around.

His administration has gone on a firing spree, directing federal agencies to lay off the more than 200,000 probationary government workers, offering tens of thousands of federal employees a dubious buyout offer, and empowering an unelected billionaire to poke around in nearly every federal agency to find even more people to fire while also slashing congressionally approved budgets.

Then he had a poke around in his box.