probe
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In his clash with the feds over his rehab center, Rucci forced the government to return $600,000 it had seized in the probe, which prosecutors said focused on Medicaid billing issues.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
After a probe from the country's consumer protection agency, the channel scaled back such ads.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
The commander of Ukraine's scandal-hit "Anne of Kyiv" army brigade has been arrested as part of a murder probe, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday.
From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026
The probe was previously unable to get under way due to concerns over its structural safety.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
"So, Dr. Kapoor, tell us about the Taiyang Shen. Why go to China to launch a probe? Why not launch it from the US?"
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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The airshow comes as the industry's expectations about Boeing are beginning to reset after a rocky period defined by safety crises, criminal probes and leadership shakeups.
From Barron's ● Jul. 16, 2026
Asked about the lengthy U.S. probes, Geng said the fakery was often obvious.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
SEC probes alleged insider trades that cost Susquehanna millions.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026
The team used Neuropixels probes, an advanced technology that had never before been used in the hippocampus for this type of research.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 29, 2026
At the Rad Lab, Wilson contributed ingenious improvements to the cyclotron, among them a rubber gasket allowing probes to be inserted and withdrawn from the chamber without compromising the vacuum.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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But, he added, constant updates to the original frame of the B-52 could also cause issues that need to be probed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026
KoBold probed deeper underground than others had looked and discovered a vast deposit of high-grade copper.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 2026
As a result, the company’s rehiring practices were probed as part of an internal investigation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 21, 2026
As they probed the earth, they smelt the dirt, looking for the distinctive odour of human remains.
From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2026
He probed the wax in his ears with the pencil and began to concentrate, listening to the sounds of his mother’s preparations for an evening at the bowling alley.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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The university employing some of the paper’s authors quickly announced an investigation, and Nature said last week it was probing the paper, which described a potential patch for delivering medicine to internal organs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
Public hearings -- tasked with probing the factors leading to Australia's deadliest mass shooting -- have started to receive testimony about the role social media plays in the spread of antisemitism.
From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 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
His nervousness increases as Lovett questions him again, probing Mudd’s story for contradictions, half- truths, and outright lies.
From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly
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