Thesaurus results for LOOKING (INTO)

looking (into)

verb

present participle of look (into)

as in exploring

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

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Somewhere along the way, she’s found joy in exploring complicated, messy characters.

— Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 14 Sep. 2026
The two companies will first focus on the joint feasibility study before exploring potential large-scale commercial opportunities.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 12 Sep. 2026

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Instead of simply reducing the amount of water used in a process, researchers are investigating whether the same water can be cleaned and cycled back into production.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 8 Sep. 2026
After investigating 600 items of evidence related to the substation, the National Energy System Operator ruled out suspicious activity in a report saying a preventable moisture fault caused the fire, leaving almost 70,000 homes without power.

— Henry Austin, NBC news, 8 Sep. 2026

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McEvoy, who leads Insulet, the maker of the wearable, tubeless Omnipod insulin pump, said designing better technology requires understanding the details of patients’ days—not simply examining their clinical data.

— Angela Haupt, Time, 11 Sep. 2026
Lamming’s review looked at more than 350 studies in total, most of which were conducted in mice and other lab models, examining things like lifespan, metabolic health, and cellular aging.

— Jennifer Byrne, Popular Science, 10 Sep. 2026

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