poked (around)

past tense of poke (around)

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Verb
  • Merlin founded the Perpetual Path Foundation, whose goal is to create quality financial education content for students.
    William Jones, USA Today, 16 May 2025
  • Linklater founded the Austin Film Society in 1985, a nonprofit dedicated to helping support filmmakers and their projects.
    Zoe Hewitt, Variety, 15 May 2025
Verb
  • When supernova in one of these galaxies is detected, researchers can refer to the baseline images.
    Robert Z. Pearlman, Space.com, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Astronomers have detected an erupting supermassive black hole producing some of the largest jets ever seen bursting from a galaxy with the same shape as our own.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 24 Mar. 2025
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“Poked (around).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/poked%20%28around%29. Accessed 21 May. 2025.

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