Example Sentences

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Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board as it has probed other major refinery fires.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 8, 2025

Since the beginning, the “Alien” franchise has probed the bounds of what we considered humanity.

From Salon • Jul. 17, 2025

A team including researchers from Osaka University has probed the effect of voltage on the passage of ions through a nanopore membrane to demonstrate greater control of the process.

From Science Daily • May 30, 2024

Beijing has found little steel as it has probed everywhere from the cyber domain to the South China Sea.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 15, 2023

D In the preparation of this chapter and its illustrations, I have had much valuable assistance from Mr. C. William Beebe, who recently has probed the London feather trade almost to the bottom.

From Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation by Hornaday, William Temple