exploratory
adjective
pertaining to or concerned with exploration.
explorative
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a variation of
exploratory.
Example Sentences
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Mice that were given microbes from a healthy person were generally more explorative and inquisitive.
From Salon ● May 10, 2024
Young children are a bit more focused on explorative trial-and-error learning.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 9, 2022
Several members of the MOU group - which includes psychotherapy, psychological and psychiatric bodies - say a ban which still allows for explorative therapies is possible and had already been enacted in other countries.
From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2022
Tom also denounced the LAPD’s investigation of him as misguided and extreme at nearly every stage — alleging he was “swept up in an ongoing and overly explorative investigation that has minimal connection with him.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 29, 2021
These four procedures in the search for useful vocational tests, in the absence of complete vocational psychographs, are quite generally recognized to be but tentative expedients of an explorative character.
From Vocational Psychology: Its Problems and Methods by Harry L. Hollingworth
