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Adjective
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His first career, right after college, was exploratory, resulting in purchasing one store in an airport.—
Nancy K Schlossberg,
USA Today,
3 July 2025 -
Matteson Mayor Sheila Chalmers-Currin also formed an exploratory committee to run for Kelly’s seat.—
Olivia Olander,
Chicago Tribune,
2 July 2025
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The experimental Schiaparelli lander, which was to test the descent and landing system for the Rosalind Franklin rover, crashed in 2016 due to a motion sensor failure.—
Tereza Pultarova,
Space.com,
30 June 2025
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More than two decades after researchers first demonstrated that a person could move a computer cursor with their thoughts, several firms are poised to take the brain-computer interface (BCI) from experimental curiosity to commercial product.—
Jon Hamilton,
NPR,
30 June 2025
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Another recommendation: that judges, lawyers and jail staff complete a 40-hour course intended to teach strategies to de-escalate and resolve crisis situations involving individuals with mental health conditions, substance use disorders, and developmental and intellectual disabilities.—
Stephen Hudak,
The Orlando Sentinel,
29 June 2025
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Now children are able to attend developmental sessions at a local facility, with support from UNICEF and the Association of Preschool Educators.—
UNICEF USA,
Forbes.com,
28 June 2025
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Perhaps there is no more probative example of this when the current president would not rule out using American military force to take Greenland and/or the Panama Canal.—
Letters to the Editor,
Orlando Sentinel,
29 Jan. 2025
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Fulbright shepherded the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution through the Senate in 1964, but two years later, his probative hearings helped shift public opinion against the war.—
James Goldgeier,
Foreign Affairs,
14 Aug. 2018
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Where to collect, what to collect, how to collect, how to analyze China's final pick of a landing zone will rely on a review of 86 preliminary landing sites.—
Leonard David,
Space.com,
29 June 2025
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Remove any excess grease, then use your bristle brush to do a preliminary scrub of the cold grill grates.—
Karla Walsh,
Better Homes & Gardens,
28 June 2025
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“Investigative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/investigative. Accessed 13 Jul. 2025.
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