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The next day, after more prodding by Amelia’s father, police received permission to search some parts of the house but found no sign of her.

What follows is less of a neighborly conversation than Nile prodding a potential victim for exploitable weaknesses.

The incongruous scene, with veiled women clinking glasses, signals the changes under way and in the conservative kingdom, home to Islam's holiest sites, as deep-seated taboos are gently prodded.

Particularly relevant to the Oakland complaints, AB 715 includes a provision intended to prod districts to resolve discrimination complaints sooner.

He’d need to prod the big Wall Street firms to create them.