explorative
- 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
At first, I welcomed the quiet, explorative change.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 17, 2022
However, a number of clinicians said that a ban which still allowed for explorative therapies was possible and had already been enacted in other countries.
From BBC ● May 11, 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
To this point was Wordsworth come, as far as I can conceive, when he wrote ‘Tintern Abbey,’ and it seems to me that his Genius is explorative of those dark Passages.
From Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends by Keats, John
