exploratory
adjective
ex·plor·ato·ry
ik-ˈsplȯr-ə-ˌtȯr-ē 
: of, relating to, or being exploration
exploratory surgery
exploratory drilling for oil
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Stringer, a Manhattan Democrat, filed paperwork early Thursday morning with the city’s Campaign Finance Board to launch an exploratory committee for a mayoral run, a move that will enable him to raise money for a campaign and could alter the city’s political landscape in the coming months.
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Michael Gartland, New York Daily News, 18 Jan. 2024
Relations between the United States and Iran had become so fraught and politically contentious that if exploratory talks were not kept secret they were bound to go nowhere.
—Martin Indyk, Foreign Affairs, 23 July 2015
The exploratory work, which will impact weekday traffic between Boise and McCall for the month of June, is the first in a line of efforts to build a new permanent span over the North Fork of the Payette River.
—Kevin Fixler, Idaho Statesman, 3 June 2024
Instead, she’s since embarked on a restlessly exploratory career, drifting from neo-soul to punk/pop.
—Spin Staff, SPIN, 3 June 2024
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Michael Gartland, New York Daily News, 18 Jan. 2024
Relations between the United States and Iran had become so fraught and politically contentious that if exploratory talks were not kept secret they were bound to go nowhere.
—Martin Indyk, Foreign Affairs, 23 July 2015
The exploratory work, which will impact weekday traffic between Boise and McCall for the month of June, is the first in a line of efforts to build a new permanent span over the North Fork of the Payette River.
—Kevin Fixler, Idaho Statesman, 3 June 2024
Instead, she’s since embarked on a restlessly exploratory career, drifting from neo-soul to punk/pop.
—Spin Staff, SPIN, 3 June 2024
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exploratory
adjective
ex·plor·ato·ry
ik-ˈsplōr-ə-ˌtōr-ē, -ˈsplȯr-, -ˌtȯr-
: of, relating to, or being exploration
exploratory surgery
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