Example Sentences

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Federal authorities have probed several of his aides over possible corruption.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 1, 2025

Members of Congress have probed DoorDash over alleged “junk fees” and price gouging, and disaffected customers have filed Federal Trade Commission complaints along with class-action suits.

From Slate • Oct. 22, 2025

More recent artists have probed more for our time, especially in a production by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei at Rome Opera two years ago.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2024

Many of the released James Webb Space Telescope images have probed to unprecedented depths of the universe and produced pictures with revolutionary levels of clarity and detail.

From Salon • Feb. 24, 2023

Forty years I have probed among the cells of the body—the final mystery remains insoluble.

From The Tyranny of the Dark by Garland, Hamlin