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A prober of silences, Sante writes about the tens of thousands of anonymous men, many of them immigrants and African Americans, who toiled on these projects, often living in hastily constructed settlements, leaving few traces.

From New York Times • Aug. 8, 2022

She’s a prober, but not a heavy-handed one.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 24, 2021

The latest prober of the executive psyche, Washington Psychoanalyst Michael Maccoby, identifies four types.

From Time Magazine Archive

He is not a methodical reformer, a dynamic organizer, but a prober, a prelate who says aloud what others may think in silence, who raises critical but often embarrassing questions for debate.

From Time Magazine Archive

But Mary-in-the-glass, that sentimental young woman, was no prober of emotions.

From Once Aboard the Lugger by Hutchinson, A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth)