Sample Sentences for
probe
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    The committee will probe the cause of the failure.
    probe = investigate
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    It takes eight months to get a probe to Mars in the best of times.  (source)
    probe = an unmanned spacecraft used for exploration
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    But the samples so far were all made with molecular construction techniques—that is, using a nanoscale molecular probe to stack the molecules one by one, like laying out bricks for a wall.  (source)
    probe = instrument
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    The evil of our crime is not for the human mind to probe.  (source)
    probe = to investigate
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    He keeps probing for more information and I tell him there isn't any more, that I've held nothing back.  (source)
    probing = searching (investigating)
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    It was his mother's mind, and Meg's, that he probed with frightening accuracy.  (source)
    probed = investigated
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    Previous to Stone's paper, most discussion of contamination dealt with the hazards to other planets of satellites and probes inadvertently carrying earth organisms.  (source)
    probes = unmanned spacecraft used for exploration
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    His hardest probings at his father had only brought him a dim picture of something like an octopus, whirling up into the hard blue sky.†  (source)
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    There's a department store there called Miller and Rhoads that has an excellent record department, at least it did when I was going to school down in Middlesex—" Now again she interrupted, saying gently but probingly, " 'Once we get settled'?†  (source)
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    Ninety-nine point forty-four percent of what we listened to gives us nothing, except to tell us what a terrific prober this Walsh is.†  (source)
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    A year before, while the Government probers were examining what was left of his memory, Marie had quietly, rapidly, withdrawn the funds David had left in Zurich's Gemeinschaft Bank as well as those he had transferred to Paris as Jason Bourne.†  (source)
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    His heart beat loud in contact with the unprobed, undissected, unanalyzed, unaccounted for.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unprobed means not and reverses the meaning of probed. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    I told him that I would be at the town pool, which he gleefully misread as a romantic meeting (for I had gone there only once, for a town event with Mary Burns), but when I told him I was watching a friend's boy, he was curiously unprobing, as if he knew the legacies of my complications.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unprobing means not and reverses the meaning of probing. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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