- present participle of probe.
probing
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“NAZA” eschews probing for guilty feelings, though, because the point is to unearth a process of obliteration: how it works and what it looks like as implemented by the willing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
Senior National Coordinator for Counter Terrorism Policing Vicki Evans said that police were probing “all possible angles—including possible foreign state involvement.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
ICE and Homeland Security Investigations are probing the case.
From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026
Police are probing any links to Iran, the paper says.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
Yossarian turned slowly to gaze at Milo with probing distrust.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
The probings about driver versus three-wood had lost steam.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2015
So were his probings of the court records for murder cases against Jeffrey MacDonald, in his 2012 book “A Wilderness of Error,” and Randall Adams, in the 1988 film “The Thin Blue Line.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2014
His finding echoes the results of similar probings by other researchers into the 2008 statistics.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 26, 2012
Matters of marriage, sex, science and womanhood are raised by Ruhl, a continually inventive playwright whose lyrical sense of the absurd is as acute as her insightful probings into the psyches of her quirky characters.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 28, 2011
These early science-fiction tales explored the Universe; they were probings, speculations, as to where we could go.
From The Black Star Passes by John Wood Campbell
