Example Sentences

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“The customer is, I would say, very explorative in their flavor profile when it comes to our assortment of snacks,” Tran continued.

From Salon • Apr. 20, 2025

Young children are a bit more focused on explorative trial-and-error learning.

From Washington Post • Aug. 9, 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

The FDP federal leadership and members of parliament voted in favour of starting negotiations in earnest following initial explorative meetings, which could see the SPD’s Olaf Scholz succeed Angela Merkel as chancellor.

From Reuters • Oct. 18, 2021

This is doubtless the outgrowth of the bogies and the “don’ts” which are calculated to check the child’s explorative and investigative instincts in his nursery days.

From Down the Columbia by Freeman, Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome)