probing
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A nurse, who was visibly unsettled and asked not to be identified, told AFP that the hospital was probing the circumstances of the fire and "doesn't want its reputation to be damaged any further".
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
Instead of gently probing nuclei, researchers collide them at the highest energies available and reconstruct their shapes from the patterns left behind.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026
However, the protesters say they will not call off demonstrations until India's premier investigative agency begins probing alleged malpractices in other recruitment exams.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
With the Department of Justice, the SEC and state insurance regulators probing Mark Walter’s businesses, the Dodgers owner has a lot on the line.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
He was lithe, and his eyes moved about the room with probing energy.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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
Sibyl had that innate tact which is born in some natures, and always knew where to pause in her probings and questionings.
From Daddy's Girl by L. T. Meade
