had been probing
- past perfect progressive of probe.
Example Sentences
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Fannie Mae watchdogs were removed from their jobs after they had been probing whether Pulte had improperly obtained mortgage records of James and other Democrats, The Wall Street Journal previously reported.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
Joe Sullivan was found guilty of obstructing justice for keeping the breach from the Federal Trade Commission, which had been probing Uber’s privacy protections at the time, and of actively hiding a felony.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 5, 2022
By this time, officials had been probing the vulnerability of automatic controls for a decade, but Aurora was the first tangible test of whether a physical object could be destroyed in a remote cyberattack.
From Slate ● Feb. 9, 2021
Only last week, for instance, did the public learn that Mueller had been probing payments made by Fortune 500 companies to Cohen since at least last fall.
From Seattle Times ● May 13, 2018
Even then she looked about her in a dazed way, as if she feared some one had been probing her heart—hanging back till the others had showered their congratulations on the reader.
From Kennedy Square by Smith, Francis Hopkinson
