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There was a congressional probe into the scandal.probe = investigation
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A space probe was sent to investigate the planet's atmosphere.probe = unmanned spacecraft for exploration
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She probed beneath the gum line as she examined his teeth.probed = investigated (with a dental instrument)
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The technician used a probe to measure voltage inside the circuit board.probe = instrument for testing electronics
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She probed the anthill with a stick.probed = prodded or poked (to investigate)
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The committee will probe the cause of the failure.probe = investigate
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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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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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he had tried to probe Murtagh's consciousness, (source)probe = explore (investigate)
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He had not broken under Lawton's insistent probing. (source)probing = questioning or 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)probingly = in the manner of an investigation
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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)unprobed = not investigatedstandard 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)unprobing = not investigatingstandard 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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