as in experimental
done or created to find something or to learn more about something
exploratory drilling for oil
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Recent Examples of exploratory
Lunar Trailblazer is one NASA's new class of small innovative exploratory spacecraft.
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Joe Palca, NPR, 26 Feb. 2025
The State Department is playing down the talks as exploratory.
—Bernhard Warner, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2025
The distinction matters, because basic research, which is purely exploratory research, has enormous downstream benefits.
—Chris Impey, The Conversation, 17 Feb. 2025
To prove his own glow-up, the rapper and singer pushes his bedroom beats into a bigger, more exploratory sound across the entire record, as influenced by role models Pharrell Williams and Tyler, the Creator.
—Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 21 Feb. 2025
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Joe Palca, NPR, 26 Feb. 2025
The State Department is playing down the talks as exploratory.
—Bernhard Warner, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2025
The distinction matters, because basic research, which is purely exploratory research, has enormous downstream benefits.
—Chris Impey, The Conversation, 17 Feb. 2025
To prove his own glow-up, the rapper and singer pushes his bedroom beats into a bigger, more exploratory sound across the entire record, as influenced by role models Pharrell Williams and Tyler, the Creator.
—Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 21 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for exploratory
Recent Examples of Synonyms for exploratory
Adjective
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Taara is the latest project to spring from X—Alphabet’s experimental hub that produced AI lab Google Brain and Waymo’s self-driving cars—and has its origins in a concept called Loon.—
Michael Teo Van Runkle,
Ars Technica,
17 Mar. 2025
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Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, who piloted Boeing's experimental Starliner spacecraft in June 2024, were supposed to be away from Earth for about eight days.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes,
17 Mar. 2025
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Implementing stronger oversight for speculative assets.—
Susie Violet Ward,
Forbes,
18 Mar. 2025
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Any financial instruments mentioned herein are speculative in nature and may involve risk to principal and interest.—
Katie Stockton,
CNBC,
17 Mar. 2025
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The cost was pegged at about $80 million with tentative, public financing of about $15 million.—
Kenneth R. Gosselin,
Hartford Courant,
20 Mar. 2025
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The company reached a tentative agreement to sell its intellectual property to investment firm Content Partners for $365 million but the figure is a baseline.—
Winston Cho,
The Hollywood Reporter,
19 Mar. 2025
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Judge Alsup in federal district court issues preliminary injunction on Trump's firing of federal workers in probationary periods.—
Hannah Parry,
Newsweek,
13 Mar. 2025
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The City Commission is slated to take a preliminary vote on the proposal Thursday.—
Tess Riski,
Miami Herald,
13 Mar. 2025
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This isn’t just theoretical—Ben & Jerry’s founders have openly discussed buying back the brand from Unilever.—
Stephanie Gravalese,
Forbes,
20 Mar. 2025
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For them, a theoretical risk has already become an all too personal one.—
Ron Lieber,
New York Times,
19 Mar. 2025
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“Exploratory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exploratory. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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