Synonyms for probing
prob·ing

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1. probingnoun

   Synonyms:
   exploring, investigating, questioning

2. probingadjective

   Of something that investigates or explores deeply.

   He was unsettled by her probing questions.

   Synonyms:
   investigating, questioning, exploring

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1. inquisitory, probing, searchingadjective

   diligent and thorough in inquiry or investigation

   "a probing inquiry"; "a searching investigation of their past dealings"

   Synonyms:
   searching, trenchant, inquisitory

   Antonyms:
   uninquiring, uninquisitive

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1. List of paraphrases for "probing":

   investigates, probe, probes, investigating, sounding, poll

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How to use probing in a sentence?

1. Leo Taddeo:

   We're always concerned when we see nation-state activity probing our infrastructure, by naming and shaming, you might bring attention to the issue and bring additional resources to bear on it.

2. Chris Murphy:

   I was glad that Mark Meadows came out and made that clear this morning, our allies and our adversaries need to know that and understand, because we still have many of those on the latter list that are probing at our vulnerabilities.

3. Rod Serling:

   It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.

4. Erik Lindquist:

   Rather than preparing data to analyze we can spend time probing the data for answers. We're getting to answers much more quickly.

5. David Axelrod:

   There were more probing stories, it kind of culminated in March with the frenzy around Rev. Jeremiah Wright.