probes 1 of 2

plural of probe

probes

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verb

present tense third-person singular of probe

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of probes
Noun
Analyzing data from lunar probes, a team of researchers found a rock formation that was much denser and more strongly magnetized compared with the surrounding material. — Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 29 Sep. 2026 Some cosmologists have thought that BBN is too old-school to be as good a tool for cosmology as other probes of the early universe. — Cara Giovanetti, The Conversation, 25 Sep. 2026 Manually controlling a large number of such probes would be a taxing and expensive enterprise, which explains why the startup developed Solo. — Mike Wall, Space.com, 23 Sep. 2026 Hur judiciously constructs scene after scene that pulls and pushes the various probes closer to and further from the mysterious truth, which feels at once obscured and hidden in plain sight. — Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 20 Sep. 2026 Even with Oracle founder Larry Ellison the primary backer of his son’s ParaBros dreams, the even older Ellison’s net worth, which has been declining of late, may not be able to handle the strain of months and months of such probes. — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 19 Sep. 2026 The specific parameters described here are a close cousin of a real code that NASA used in its Voyager probes to send images back to Earth. — Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2026 Over the past two years, about a half-dozen Black people have been found hanged across the South, with quick suicide rulings and scant evidence fueling family skepticism and demands for deeper probes. — Corey Williams, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026 Read more on what power players would likely face new probes. — Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 16 Sep. 2026
Verb
Set in Palm Springs, California, and seen on Broadway in 2011, the play probes a rich, powerful, troubled and Reagan-esque West Coast political family and makes much of the metaphor of the arid, infertile desert. — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 23 Sep. 2026 Plus, Louis Menand probes the business of punctuation, and Margaret Talbot surveys the literature on the question of why fewer people are choosing to have children. — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026 Set against the backdrop of political dishonesty and the country’s abandonment of ideals, the book probes questions about how to be an artist in the world. — Literary Hub, 2 Sep. 2026 In Sarah Pekkanen’s new thriller, The Women in White, a young health-care aide probes how four female participants in a 1964 parapsychology experiment suddenly vanished. — The Week Us, TheWeek, 20 Aug. 2026 The victory comes as Parliament’s standards watchdog probes Farage’s undeclared multimillion-dollar crypto donation and his finances with controversial ally George Cottrell, scrutiny that could yet force him from office. — Brian Melley, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2026 Edwidge Danticat probes the ideas of safety, home, and survival all while examining the consequences of not speaking about one’s pain. — Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 4 Aug. 2026 Advertisement The Children, Melissa Albert YA author Melissa Albert’s adult fiction debut probes the legacy of a long dead bestselling fantasy author who left behind many dark secrets. — Hamilton Cain, Time, 7 July 2026 No one can pretend that that’s not a fact, but Andy really probes. — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 6 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for probes
Noun
  • The bill also required the state water board to consult with tribes whose ancestral territories included water bodies during investigations into water rights.
    — Andrew Graham, Sacbee.com, 1 Oct. 2026
  • For all the attention organizations give to Title IX compliance, general workplace investigations—the kind every private employer eventually faces—rarely get the same documentation discipline.
    — Beth Worthy, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Tara Badstubner explores why recent ghosts are (actually) haunting us.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 2026
  • The Lantern mythos has long involved inheritance, through its rings being passed down, but the show explores the weight of that inheritance by tethering it to fear.
    — Siddhant Adlakha, Vulture, 28 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Some identity theft companies include Dark Web Monitoring that searches for exposed personal information and alerts you when it is found.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 30 Sep. 2026
  • Amid changing forests, a blind Polish linguist searches for sounds that might heal what human language cannot.
    — Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 29 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Not so long ago, such inquiries belonged among the woo-woo subsect of our social dynamics and our literature.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 2026
  • Inside Lindblom, university leaders playfully lobbied on behalf of their campuses to a group of more than a dozen participants, who fired inquiries back about courses, postgraduation job success rates, campus accessibility and culture, and more.
    — Kate Perez, Chicago Tribune, 25 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • In addition to examining Musk’s role in controlling the discourse on X, the movie investigates the mogul’s time in Washington with DOGE.
    — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 26 Sep. 2026
  • The Monitor investigates what messages China's increasingly popular AI models are promoting.
    — Ann Scott Tyson, Christian Science Monitor, 23 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Part of it has to do with Tariq, a Pakistani American filmmaker who partially grew up in Texas and has a knack for embedding a dizzying aesthetic into cross-cultural explorations.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2026
  • Hadrian’s Wall is the place of continuing archeological discovery, even after all these years and explorations.
    — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 21 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The report, from the Center for Digital Thriving, a research and innovation center at Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, examines the challenges surrounding generative AI use in schools.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 30 Sep. 2026
  • Valdez, who divides his time between Houston and San Antonio, examines experiences of being Latino in the United States.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 29 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • In part, these changes have been spurred by – and continue to spur – deeper examinations of Islamic teachings by religious leaders as well as civilian scholars.
    — Monitor's Editorial Board, Christian Science Monitor, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Recent technical examinations reveal several modifications beneath the pictorial surface.
    — Sarah Belmont, ARTnews.com, 29 Sep. 2026

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“Probes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/probes. Accessed 5 Oct. 2026.

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