Probing

We need to ask some probing questions if we want to get some real information.

The Mars 2020 rover will investigate a region of Mars where the ancient environment may have been favorable for microbial life, probing the Martian rocks for evidence of past life.

These birds forage by probing in shallow water or on wet mud.

The U.S. space agency NASA has been probing the solar system with an increasingly sophisticated contingent of orbiting telescopes, satellites, and spacecraft throughout its 50 year history.

He was unsettled by her probing questions.

He was not sure he wanted too probing an inquiry into the state of his health.

Rooney was the subject of some mischievous probing from the Russia media before the game as they suggested his retreat into midfield was a measure of his declining powers.