Thesaurus results for EXPLORED

explored

verb

past tense of explore

as in investigated

to search through or into communities must explore new ways of raising money for their cultural institutions

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as in searched

to go into or range over for purposes of discovery we must continue to explore the depths of the ocean

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Recent Examples of explored Their conversation explored Palmer’s relationship with fame and social media, her connection with her body after giving birth and her journey to a healthier life. —

Janey Wetzel, PEOPLE, 21 June 2026 Some businesses explored new revenue streams. —

Dan Greene, New Yorker, 20 June 2026 Research presented this week at ENDO 2026, the Endocrine Society’s annual meeting in Chicago, explored how obesity is strongly linked to fertility problems in men. —

Angelica Stabile, FOXNews.com, 20 June 2026 This was one of the challenges explored by a panel of industry movers and shakers at the recent Snowflake Summit in San Francisco, which focused on finding the ROI of moving AI and agentic AI from prototyping to production. —

Joe McKendrick, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026 If Babuka Black’s first Slippers releases explored the unanswerable, 08’s appeal lies in the unsaid. —

Jude Noel, Pitchfork, 19 June 2026 Themes expected to be explored include retail destinations as social and cultural infrastructure, new experiential and community-led models, circular approaches to large-scale assets, and the layering of digital and playful experiences into physical environments. —

Tianwei Zhang, Footwear News, 18 June 2026 Researchers explored the remains during multiple deep-sea submersible trips in 2023, collecting samples and mapping the extent of the necropolis. —

Adithi Ramakrishnan, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2026 Though Porgy and Bess didn’t pan out, Spielberg further explored stage-to-screen adaptations with 2021’s West Side Story, which garnered seven Oscar nominations and clinched one for Supporting Actress for Ariana DeBose. —

Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 14 June 2026

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The finding came from a study in which van der Weyden and other scientists across the world investigated cancer-causing genes in tumor samples of nearly 500 domestic cats -- specifically which genes were commonly mutated.

— KYLE MELNICK THE WASHINGTON POST, Arkansas Online, 21 June 2026
Deputies from the Sheriff’s Office Boating Safety Unit investigated the scene, and as of Friday, believed that the juvenile was wearing a floatation device at the time of the crash, while the adults were not.

— Velvet Wu June 21, Sacbee.com, 21 June 2026