Examples of exploration in a Sentence
a topic for scholarly exploration
the early exploration of the West
early explorations of the West
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The poet, who died in 1976, injects mournful omniscience into explorations of heartache.
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The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2025
Starman is the story of Gentry Lee, currently chief engineer for planetary exploration at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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However, Severance’s subtle exploration of race feels natural to the story.
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His explorations with tiny pointers led to a new kind of hash table—one that did not rely on uniform probing.
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The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2025
Starman is the story of Gentry Lee, currently chief engineer for planetary exploration at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Mar. 2025
However, Severance’s subtle exploration of race feels natural to the story.
—Banseka Kayembe, refinery29.com, 17 Mar. 2025
His explorations with tiny pointers led to a new kind of hash table—one that did not rely on uniform probing.
—Steve Nadis, WIRED, 16 Mar. 2025
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“Exploration.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/exploration. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.
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exploration
noun
ex·plo·ra·tion
ˌek-splə-ˈrā-shən 
: the act or an instance of exploring
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