I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a searching/probing question (= one designed to find things out )
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The immigration officer asked me some searching questions.
space probe
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■ ADVERB
deeper
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They had accepted it for what it was, and never bothered to probe deeper , and she had followed suit.
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In the current chapter we probe deeper into trade structure in order to achieve two objectives.
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He has the world in his hands, women, money, success - but this man probes deeper .
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But we must now probe deeper .
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Jezrael shied from probing deeper , thinking, Who am I to question orders?
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These contradictory effects can be explained by probing deeper into the subject of adenosine receptors.
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In fact, if you probe deeper , vitally important functional differences between patients will emerge.
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The geophysicist must probe deeper to look at the forces generated below the surface of the earth by the continental plates.
further
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His eyes warned her to shut up, not to probe further .
■ NOUN
committee
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In Committee we shall probe deeply into that issue.
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She had been called previously, she said, by investigators for the House and Senate committees probing Democratic fund-raising.
investigator
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As investigators probed the brain further, the riddle of the mind revealed itself to be deeply specific.
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The investigator dispatched to probe the incident blamed the Tonghaks for the trouble.
police
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Andrea was too distraught to speak as police probed the tragedy at Gabalfa, Cardiff, yesterday.
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Away to the police surgeon to be probed for invisible cells hidden about her person.
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The head has been suspended and police are probing the school.
question
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I didn't have to ask Richie any probing questions .
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I should have asked more questions , probed to under-stand exactly what it was they were trying to achieve.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I'm tired of the doctors poking and probing me with needles and tubes.
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Reporters began probing for more information.
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The press have been criticised for probing too deeply into the actor's private life.
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The Secretary of State is probing claims of election fraud.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Andrea was too distraught to speak as police probed the tragedy at Gabalfa, Cardiff, yesterday.
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Cars streamed along the Embankment, their headlamps probing the dusk; a barge slapped its way along the shimmering river.
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His eyes swept from side to side, probing the edges of the darkness.
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I have profited from their probing into the functions such stories might serve.
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The expected report from Mission Control had still not arrived; this might be the moment to do a little tactful probing.
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The eyes were intently probing - a remembered deep, dark blue.
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The guarding infantry probed the area but encountered nothing.
II. noun
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■ NOUN
space
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Atlantis was to carry the Galileo space probe on the first leg of a six-year voyage to Jupiter this afternoon.
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Despite serious technical obstacles, space agency officials are considering whether to launch a Jupiter space probe powered entirely by sunlight.
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Artificial satellites and space probes have contributed much new knowledge.
■ VERB
conduct
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Auditor general Sir John Bourn will personally conduct the probe .
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Officers on the current investigation have been helped by cops who conducted the initial probe .
launch
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Despite serious technical obstacles, space agency officials are considering whether to launch a Jupiter space probe powered entirely by sunlight.
order
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We describe in the next section methods for building contigs which rely on ordering the probes rather than the clones.
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The analysis software described in this paper does not order multiple-copy probes .
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Education officials have ordered a formal probe into allegations the pupil was struck at Darlington's Hummersknot School.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Ammiano called for a probe into reports of voter fraud.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He subsequently alleged that the lab had produced sloppy, misleading or fabricated evidence in a number of major probes.
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I could have put my picks and probes to bed in the compartment I thus opened, but I decided not to.
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Karen responded to my gentle probes.
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Lane 1 is the A+G sequence of the hybridization probe .
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The probe was applied from the front in 32 and laterally in 17 cases.
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The current data are insufficient to establish the suitability of the heater probe compared with other types of endoscopic treatment.
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The idea was to manoeuvre the two modules together so that the probe entered the drogue.
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The money went for staffers who were out of work when the probe ended.