probing
Example Sentences
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Possibilities include probing gender dynamics within Neanderthal society, or migration habits -- perhaps males were likely to leave their societies while females stayed with their families, for example.
From Barron's
Why limit the capacity of the Freedom of Information Act to allow probing questions of the monarchy?
From BBC
Andrew hasn’t commented on the allegations, and the police haven’t detailed exactly what aspects of his time in office they are probing.
The game began like a heavyweight title fight, with both teams cautiously probing the other for weaknesses.
From Los Angeles Times
Wiseman has spent a career probing the complex inner workings and painfully human errors of America’s establishments, but in marriage itself, he may have found the most fraught, mysterious and unreformable institution of all.”
From Los Angeles Times
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