probe
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A long gun and shell casings were found on the scene, FBI Director Kash Patel said, adding that the agency was carrying out witness interviews as part of its probe.
From Barron's • Apr. 26, 2026
By examining these systems, researchers can probe the vacuum structure and the mechanisms that give particles their mass.
From Science Daily • Apr. 25, 2026
On Friday, just a couple of days after publicly insisting that the probe would go on, Pirro finally caved.
From Slate • Apr. 25, 2026
The White House stressed that the probe into cost overruns of the Fed’s renovations of its headquarters would continue.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 24, 2026
Now our immediate hope was that his chemical colleagues would be more than ever awed by his intellect and not probe the details of his model.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
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