Probe and Sample

Probe

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

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Sample and probe are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Sample" instead the word "Probe" as a noun or a verb.

Nearby Words: probing, probed

Sample noun - A number of things selected from a group to stand for the whole.

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Probe and sample are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Probe" instead the word "Sample" as a noun or a verb.

Nearby Words: sampling, sampler, sampled, samp

human	human probe	human sample
old	old probe	old sample
alien	alien probe	alien sample
small	small probe	small sample
Other adjectives: actual, large, larger, last, occasional.

probe world

sample world

Best-quality tips of scanning probe microscopes are literally single atom-wide and able to resolve individual atoms of the sample.

Source: Sharpened to a Single Atom
The probe will rendezvous with Bennu in 2018, study the asteroid for about 500 days, then collect a sample and return it to Earth in 2023.

Source: Useful Notes / NASA

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Sample or Probe. 2016. Accessed August 14, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/probe/sample.

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