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done or created to find something or to learn more about something
exploratory drilling for oil
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Recent Examples of exploratory
Sebastián Tarabal, a Native guide, helped Anza identify a desert crossing on an exploratory expedition in 1774.
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Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 16 Sep. 2025
Secondary measures included remission and response rates, side effects, and exploratory tests for anxiety symptoms.
—New Atlas, 16 Sep. 2025
Bringing samples of the rock home is very much on NASA’s exploratory agenda.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 11 Sep. 2025
During Tuesday’s City Council meeting, members approved a resolution calling for the creation of a fire services exploratory committee.
—Ishani Desai, Sacbee.com, 10 Sep. 2025
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Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 16 Sep. 2025
Secondary measures included remission and response rates, side effects, and exploratory tests for anxiety symptoms.
—New Atlas, 16 Sep. 2025
Bringing samples of the rock home is very much on NASA’s exploratory agenda.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 11 Sep. 2025
During Tuesday’s City Council meeting, members approved a resolution calling for the creation of a fire services exploratory committee.
—Ishani Desai, Sacbee.com, 10 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for exploratory
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Formal equality was only achieved in 1971, when the Ministry of Justice authorized women to serve in external police duties, and the National Police Board ended the experimental program.—
Isadora Wandermurem,
Time,
3 Oct. 2025
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Each choice has reinforced her role as one of fashion’s most experimental footwear allies.—
Maggie Clancy,
Footwear News,
3 Oct. 2025
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Kramer was brought into the yogurt shop murders case in late 2022 to be a part of the investigative team to sort through the evidence and find DNA.—
Jean Casarez,
CNN Money,
5 Oct. 2025
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Daviscourt is an investigative reporter with the Post Millennial.—
Stephen Sorace,
FOXNews.com,
5 Oct. 2025
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In 2021, Walmart purchased Iredell County’s largest speculative building for $69 million at 386 Old Murdock Road in Troutman, 35 miles north of Charlotte, with plans to create 500 jobs.—
Brian Gordon,
Charlotte Observer,
30 Sep. 2025
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First, during this same time, genre elements, and specifically dark speculative elements, were creeping into all fiction.—
Charlotte Phillipp,
PEOPLE,
28 Sep. 2025
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Stonestreet and Ferguson have both even revealed that there were tentative plans for a spinoff focused on their characters.—
Michael Nied,
PEOPLE,
30 Sep. 2025
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Some council members have pitched tentative ideas.—
Killian Baarlaer,
Louisville Courier Journal,
29 Sep. 2025
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The grand jury indictment supersedes the criminal complaint and allows the criminal case to skip the preliminary hearing phase and move toward a trial.—
Rosalio Ahumada,
Sacbee.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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In Utah, preliminary hearings can be delayed for months in cases involving serious felonies, sometimes up to a year, according to Lazaro.—
Michael Ruiz,
FOXNews.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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Numerical simulations and a theoretical quantum model validated the experimental results, confirming that the two phonon modes were indeed in the ultrastrong coupling regime.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
30 Sep. 2025
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In a country where disabled people are overrepresented in jails and prisons, psychiatric institutions and police encounters, this isn’t just theoretical.—
Kate Caldwell,
Mercury News,
30 Sep. 2025
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“Exploratory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exploratory. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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