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explore
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[ verb ] inquire into
Used in print (San Francisco Chronicle...)NBC plans a new series of three long programs exploring America 's scientific plans titled `` Threshold '' , to start in the fall . (U.S. News and World Report,...)Foreign competition has become so severe in certain textiles that Washington is exploring new ways of handling competitive imports . (The Providence Journal...)With curiosity and elan , he explored every_inch of glen , beach and burn , once stranding himself for hours on a ledge high_up a sheer seventy-foot cliff and waiting with calm faith to be rescued by Maxwell , who nearly lost his life in doing so . (Kenneth Underwood and Elden Jacobsen, "Probing the...)For a_number_of years , Wesleyan has been drawing varied groups of political and business_leaders into these informal discussions with members of the faculty and student body , attempting to explore and clarify aspects of their responsibility for public policy . The role of both church and university as sources of information and settings within which the implications of such information may be explored needs consideration . Related terms investigate re-explore cast_about prospect research research_worker inquiry exploration |
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[ verb ] travel to or penetrate into; of unknown territory, for scientific purposes
Used in print (James Thurber, "The Future, If Any, of Comedy,"...)In our age of Science and Angst it seems to me more brave to stay on Earth and explore inner man than to fly far from the sphere of our sorrow and explore outer_space '' . In our age of Science and Angst it seems to me more brave to stay on Earth and explore inner man than to fly far from the sphere of our sorrow and explore outer_space '' . Related terms |
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[ verb ] examine minutely
Used in print (The New York Times...)The play 's device is to explore society 's obsession with disaster and violence through the eyes of a group of artist 's models who remain part of someone else 's painting rather_than just be themselves . (Rosemary Balckmon, "How Much Do You Tell When...)At a minimum , recording - usually on tape , which is now in wide professional use - brings the psychiatric interview alive so_that the full range of emotion and meaning can be explored repeatedly by the therapist or by a_battery of therapists . |
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[ verb ] (medicine) examine for diagnostic purposes, as of organs
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