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  • present participle of probe.
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probing

[proh-bing] / ˈproʊ bɪŋ /


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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

To survive, he is out there constantly preying upon others, probing for any human weakness like a ferret.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

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

The probings of a sharp-tongued defense attorney might even 161 have tipped off the Brungarian to Tom's real purpose in letting the space brain be hijacked.

From Tom Swift and The Visitor from Planet X by Appleton, Victor [pseud.]




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