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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
Don’t hesitate to act on exploratory ideas related to the entertainment world, show business or sports.
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Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 27 Oct. 2025
Written during the last seven years of the master’s life, the unfinished composition—experimental and exploratory—is a challenge to those who dare.
—Genevieve Marks, Air Mail, 25 Oct. 2025
When making any tough decision, the key is not to be overly exploratory or exploitative.
—Big Think, 20 Oct. 2025
Wiener, 55, has already laid some of the groundwork for a run, raising $1 million through an exploratory committee.
—Barnini Chakraborty, The Washington Examiner, 18 Oct. 2025
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Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 27 Oct. 2025
Written during the last seven years of the master’s life, the unfinished composition—experimental and exploratory—is a challenge to those who dare.
—Genevieve Marks, Air Mail, 25 Oct. 2025
When making any tough decision, the key is not to be overly exploratory or exploitative.
—Big Think, 20 Oct. 2025
Wiener, 55, has already laid some of the groundwork for a run, raising $1 million through an exploratory committee.
—Barnini Chakraborty, The Washington Examiner, 18 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for exploratory
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They’re joined by Clint Bentley’s Train Dreams, Ira Sachs’ experimental Peter Hujar’s Day, Johnny Depp’s curious Modigliani biopic Modi and Lost & Found In Cleveland, which is testing a new digital theatrical marketplace.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
7 Nov. 2025
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An experimental serum shows promise in reversing baldness within 20 days.—
Staff,
FOXNews.com,
7 Nov. 2025
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Parker Thayer, an investigative researcher at the Capital Research Center, told the Washington Examiner that Bowers’s ouster should be viewed as a warning sign.—
Kaelan Deese,
The Washington Examiner,
8 Nov. 2025
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Dinner recently completed a months-long investigative report.—
Space.com Staff,
Space.com,
8 Nov. 2025
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Below are the three most salient lessons from the depths of the speculative fiction trenches.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 Nov. 2025
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Morgan Stanley Wealth Management’s chief investment officer, Lisa Shalett, issued a note to clients yesterday arguing that now may be the time to sell speculative tech stocks.—
Jim Edwards,
Fortune,
4 Nov. 2025
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As health care has become a sticking point in the shutdown impasse, a bipartisan group of House lawmakers on Monday released a tentative framework for a potential deal that would extend expiring the health insurance subsidies that have been at the center of the shutdown debate.—
Zachary Schermele,
USA Today,
4 Nov. 2025
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The tentative opening is this fall, but is tentative based on the progress of construction.—
Andy Humbles,
Nashville Tennessean,
4 Nov. 2025
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Federal judge Julia Kobick in Massachusetts issued a preliminary injunction stopping the Administration from enforcing the policy against Orr and six other individual plaintiffs in April.—
Chad de Guzman,
Time,
7 Nov. 2025
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The feedback will be used to screen candidates to select for preliminary interviews in January.—
Alec Johnson,
jsonline.com,
7 Nov. 2025
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The results offer crucial confirmation for theoretical models about how magnetic turbulence carries and dissipates energy in the sun's upper atmosphere, Morton added.—
Sharmila Kuthunur,
Space.com,
4 Nov. 2025
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This is not a theoretical concern.—
David Miliband,
Time,
4 Nov. 2025
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