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Synonyms for prospecting
prospect·ing

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  1. List of paraphrases for "prospecting":

    exploration, prospection, prospector, surveying, prospect, drilling

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#5829exploration
#7939prospect
#8995drilling
#15379surveying
#25130prospecting
#43056prospector
#216535prospection

How to use prospecting in a sentence?

  1. David Meyer:

    You're always looking for something that will work. ... You have to be constantly prospecting for stuff.

  2. Kenneth Angielczyk:

    They were found on the surface of rock outcrops we were prospecting for fossils, they had already undergone some weathering, which is reflected by the fact that neither specimen is complete.

  3. Angel Abbud-Madrid:

    For the moon, sufficient prospecting — through remote sensing — and identification of valuable resources, such as oxygen and hydrogen for in-situ applications, has been done to date.


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