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

Speaking of it afterward, the old Hessian said: "'Dot Colonel's reading vos fine, but he dond vos haf dot prober look uf regret vot he ought to haf had'—but here comes the Professor."

From The Comstock Club by Goodwin, Charles Carroll