Thesaurus results for EXPLORATIONS

explorations

noun

plural of exploration

as in investigations

a systematic search for the truth or facts about something an exploration into the disappearance of famed aviator Amelia Earhart

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Recent Examples of explorations Both shows veer into surprisingly philosophical and meta explorations of love, memory, perception, and performance. — Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2026 For all its explorations of love and lust, Wicker doesn’t quite reach its freaky potential. — Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2026 The cultural explorations on No Bad Memories amount, to me, to a research paper on consumerism, materialism, and capitalism through the lens of advertising. — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 21 Oct. 2026 For this couple, like those featured in other such explorations, most of this spending is on items that result from choices, not necessities. — Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026 Late last year, Fabscrap released a white paper charting its explorations of pre-consumer waste materials and making recommendations for the industry to embed circularity upstream. — Bella Webb, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2026 It is expected to bring together his most iconic artworks, while inviting a fresh perspective on the artist’s explorations of mass media, image circulation, duplication, and popular culture. — Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 7 Oct. 2026 Part of it has to do with Tariq, a Pakistani American filmmaker who partially grew up in Texas and has a knack for embedding a dizzying aesthetic into cross-cultural explorations. — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2026 Hadrian’s Wall is the place of continuing archeological discovery, even after all these years and explorations. — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 21 Sep. 2026

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Even so, should Democrats take back the House next month, Musk would face congressional investigations — and lawmakers would closely scrutinize any attempts to merge his companies.

— Ashley Gold, semafor.com, 23 Oct. 2026
Omar has denounced the investigations as a politically motivated conspiracy against her, and used it to urge supporters to donate to her reelection campaign.

— Emily Hallas, The Washington Examiner, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of investigations

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The track’s general manager, Rick Baugh, did not respond to multiple inquiries about ProPublica’s reporting, and one of the racing operation’s owners didn’t answer questions sent by email.

— Abe Streep, ProPublica, 21 Oct. 2026
The inquiries sought explanations for the absences, clarification of the league’s anthem requirements and the teams’ plans for Game 3 on Wednesday night in Atlanta.

— Dan Zaksheske OutKick, FOXNews.com, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of inquiries

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Specialists must evaluate a patient's symptoms, medical history, neurological examinations and imaging results to determine whether the disease is present.

— Jasmine Arenas, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026
Jean also said at least a dozen children underwent medical examinations and that Osbeck lacked the documentation required to operate an orphanage.

— Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of examinations

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Graham is a senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution, a professor at the University of Maryland’s School of Public Policy, and a senior scientist at Gallup, whose World Poll supplied the data for her latest paper.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2026
Earlier studies collected nearly 200 kill dates from beneath them—not one is older than 2,000 years.

— Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of studies

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The administration has targeted universities across the country with probes and threats to pull federal funding in response to pro-Palestinian protests on campus, diversity initiatives and transgender policies.

— Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 20 Oct. 2026
The enigma of comets and asteroids lured the world’s space agencies into funding a series of robotic probes to study them.

— Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 14 Oct. 2026

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