Hole and Probe

Hole

Hole verb - To make a hole or series of holes in.

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Probe and hole are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Probe" instead a verb "Hole".

Nearby Words: holed, holey, holer, holing

Probe verb - To search through or into.

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Hole and probe are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Hole" instead a verb "Probe".

Nearby Words: probing, probed

sentient	sentient hole	sentient probe
human	human hole	human probe
old	old hole	old probe
deep	deep hole	deep probe
Other adjectives: small, actual, real, large, little, rogue, bloody, mysterious, larger, strange, last, giant.

Once Linley is able to probe inside of the Coiling Dragon, he finds out that it is a Sovereign-level artifact that the has been damaged and the soul-protecting shield has a hole in it.

Source: Literature / Coiling Dragon
Apocalypse How: Damaging the probe sent to Adelpha causes a black hole to start forming on Earth, which will cause a Class X if the team doesn't fix it in time.

Source: Video Game / Outcast
If we wanted to study a black hole, we could put a probe in orbit around it the same way we put probes around other astronomical bodies.

Source: Useful Notes / Black Holes

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