Thesaurus results for LOOKED (INTO)

looked (into)

verb

past tense of look (into)

as in explored

to search through or into the owner is being forced to look into new options for promoting his declining business

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Times staff writer Deborah Vankin recently explored the practice of walking therapy by taking a hike through Griffith Park with psychotherapist Ismary Colón Angueira, who specializes in the modality.

— Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2026
In Japan, this genre has been explored quite thoroughly in anime or animation, but it’s never really been done in live-action.

— Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 5 Nov. 2026

Definition of explored

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Separate shootings in Dallas left four people dead and 15 injured as police investigated whether three incidents in the Deep Ellum neighborhood were connected.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2026
Dang and colleagues investigated the fact that the bare rock of the dayside seemed to be cooler than should be expected.

— Robert Lea, Space.com, 30 Oct. 2026

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The little prior research on any sort of relationship between voting in the United States and living longer largely examined how health status might predict later voting behaviors, Handy said.

— Kristen Rogers, CNN Money, 2 Nov. 2026
After more than two decades in space, the observatory examined over 2,000 GRBs and more than 1,400 supernovae.

— Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 2 Nov. 2026

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