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  • 1. probing
  • Rhymes with Probing
  • Probing in a sentence
  • Quotes about Probing
Table of Contents
  • 1. probing
  • Rhymes with Probing
  • Probing in a sentence
  • Quotes about Probing
Synonyms
Antonyms

1. probing

adjective. ['ˈproʊbɪŋ'] diligent and thorough in inquiry or investigation.

Synonyms

  • searching
  • inquisitory

Antonyms

  • answer
  • incurious
  • nonexploratory

Rhymes with Probing

  • absorbing
  • clubbing
  • cribbing
  • curbing
  • dabbing
  • describing
  • disturbing
  • drubbing
  • dubbing
  • ebbing
  • gabbing
  • grabbing
  • helbing
  • hibbing
  • hobbing
  • hobnobbing
  • inscribing
  • libbing
  • lobbing
  • nabbing

Sentences with probing


1. Noun, singular or mass
These professionals can look for the hemipenes for you, or they can determine the genders via probing.

2. Verb, gerund or present participle
Electrolysis is a tedious method that requires probing of each hair follicle in a given area of the body.

Quotes about probing


1. Progress has always been achieved by probing well-entrenched and well-founded forms of life with unpopular and unfounded values. This is how man gradually freed himself from fear and from the tyranny of unexamined systems.
- Paul Karl Feyerabend, Problems of Empiricism: Philosophical Papers: Problems of Empiricism v. 2 (Philosophical Papers

2. She saw why teachers get very old and stay very young. For there is no closer probing of the mind--not even in psychoanalysis.
- John Horne Burns, Lucifer with a Book

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