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  • present participle of probe.
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probing

[proh-bing] / ˈproʊ bɪŋ /


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The documentary angle, of course, is this great director probing the ethics in his own vocation as an intrusive force, one that shapes lives, emotions and, in this case, the weight of a genuine tragedy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

Yet Wedgewood also lied to media outlets that did ask probing questions about its methods, so that explanation is hard to take at face value.

From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2026

He was eager to get on the ball, was constantly probing and prompting, all before he inevitably tired after the break.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

As Hanns-Christoph Nägerl says: "The discovery of fractional Fermi seas shows how far we can push quantum simulation: not only reproducing known models, but creating and probing states that go beyond established paradigms."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

The man’s probing eyes searched me bottom to top, and I detected disgust as he sighted my scar.

From "The Ugly One" by Leanne Statland Ellis

Patients have turned to him after watching graphic videos of his healing rituals, which include nasal probings, body incisions and eye scrapings.

From New York Times ● Dec. 11, 2018

The probings about driver versus three-wood had lost steam.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2015

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

I would have gone through the surgeon's probings without a groan if she might have re-bandaged the arm afterwards.

From Her Royal Highness Woman by Max O'Rell


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