Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. Of something that investigates or explores deeply.
- n. The action of investigating or exploring.
- v. present participle of probe.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. diligent and thorough in inquiry or investigation
Examples
“For these are the laughable stereotypes he has tried to avoid his entire life, whether they come from the guy in the Giants jersey at the sports bar doing a limp wrist and a lisp or in a clever cartoon in which the word "probing" becomes overused code for gay sex.”
The Huffington Post: Adrian Margaret Brune: Ambiguously Hurtful Humor
“Aaron is still watching me, his expression probing.”
“Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Zapatero urged Venezuelan authorities Wednesday to respond to Spain's call for help in probing allegations that Basque terrorists are trained in the South American Country.”
Voice of America: Spain Presses Venezuela on Suspected ETA Training
“Or if you're using a work PC, they very likely will use your machine to begin probing other PCs on your company's network, as we described in this front page coverstory.”
“Finding an effective drug could take up to ten years, but the technology could prove useful in probing other drug resistant diseases such as HIV.”
“The physicist Stefan Meyer, a student of Franz Exner, had already expressed a strong interest in probing radium.”
“When spawning crappies move shallow, the semi-weedless nature of a spinnerbait is a big help in probing the edges of weedbeds without snagging. 1/16 ounce; four colors.”
“And alas this 'patient, tentative probing' is not what most of the ID advocates are actually doing, is it?”
“He simply seemed voyeuristically interested in probing into every aspect of his subjects 'lives using batteries of tests, intrusive questions, and close observation.”
“I saw them lifting the poor men upon it, then the surgeons sawing and cutting off arms and legs, then again probing and picking bullets from the flesh.”
At Gettysburg, or, What a Girl Saw and Heard of the Battle: A True Narrative
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘probing’.
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newGRE
mostly from magoosh
imbue, verge on, nonchalant, deliberate, timorous, futile, provisional, dissect, checked, tinged, alluring, visionary and 1046 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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Probe~ation
An obnoxious and ridiculous madlib list where verbish '-ing' words fill in the blank wherein the blank is a call for a beating.
For example:
"You're ________in' for a brus...searching, looking, hunting, seeking, questing, exploring, asking, inquiring, snooping, poking, probing, scouting and 262 more...
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complicated words
mire, mirth, misapplication, reluctant, aghast, surreptitiously, wares, abashed, leap, dash, peer, tangle and 107 more...
Tweets
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