prober
Example Sentences
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A prober of silences, Sante writes about the tens of thousands of anonymous men, many of them immigrants and African Americans, who toiled on these projects, often living in hastily constructed settlements, leaving few traces.
From New York Times ● Aug. 8, 2022
She’s a prober, but not a heavy-handed one.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2021
But a separate investigation proposed by Brian McCormally, a veteran prober in the Treasury Department's Office of Thrift Supervision, may have been aborted by higher-ups.
From Time Magazine Archive
He is not a methodical reformer, a dynamic organizer, but a prober, a prelate who says aloud what others may think in silence, who raises critical but often embarrassing questions for debate.
From Time Magazine Archive
Probing was part of the training at psi school but he had never revealed—and his tutors had never guessed—that he could create a block that could not be sensed by the prober.
From The Psilent Partner by Peterson, John Victor
