Finding and Probing

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Finding noun - A decision made by a court or tribunal regarding a case it has heard.

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Probing and finding are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Probing" instead a noun "Finding".

Nearby Words: find, finder

Probing noun - A systematic search for the truth or facts about something.

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Finding and probing are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Finding" instead a noun "Probing".

Nearby Words: probe, probable, probed

Reptiles in general are hard to sex, because it takes knowledge and a gentle probing of the cloaca to figure out their sex, so finding out that a 'male' laid eggs or got eggbound isn't uncommon.

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After fifteen minutes of not finding it, the doctor doing the probing wanted to stop, since Reagan was a very old man and it was unlikely his body could handle too much.

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Most researchers agree that when James Garfield was shot, probing for the bullet (with dirty instruments, and not even coming close to finding it) did more to kill him than the bullet itself.

Source: We Have to Get the Bullet Out

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