probing
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British police are still probing how and why five masked men were near Fairford air base last week after driving from London in vans containing barrels of fuel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
ICE and Homeland Security Investigations are probing the case.
From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026
It has worked on red-team testing with AI companies, the process of probing how a chatbot responds to dangerous requests.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
Right now the bond markets are like a pack of wolves stalking red deer, probing for weaknesses.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
He avoided her probing eyes and averted his face.
From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai
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
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 Victor [pseud.] Appleton
