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Recent Examples of explores
The film explores the 1936-39 Arab Revolt in which Palestinians rose up against Britain’s colonial rule, against a backdrop of rising Jewish immigration following the country’s support for the establishment of a national home for the Jews in Palestine with the 1917 Balfour Declaration.
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Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 12 Sep. 2025
Co-written with Claire Douglas, Hannah Ellis, and Jason Massey, the song explores the uneasy tendency to sabotage our own happiness, pairing wistful guitars with Velasco's soaring vocals.
—Daniel Fusch, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
Told in two timelines, Letters to Kafka explores her role as an active resistance fighter in Czechoslovakia after the Nazis annexed the country in 1938, and her life in Vienna from 1918 to 1925, forging her own path separate from her husband, and Kafka.
—Christine Estima
september 12, Literary Hub, 12 Sep. 2025
Andrea Grisdale’s Italian Routes, a new docuseries, explores the heart of Italy through the voices of those who experience it every day.
—Roger Sands, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Through a collection of contemporary works, the exhibition explores themes of identity, heritage and global interconnectedness through multiple genres, including paintings, photography, sculpture and text.
—Amy Carleton, Charlotte Observer, 11 Sep. 2025
Now in its fourth season, Zatima explores all the messy, heartfelt moments of love and life.
—Samantha Stutsman, PEOPLE, 11 Sep. 2025
About five years ago, Bernow noticed the mounting interest in rejuvenative medicine, which explores ways to protect the body against the chronic diseases that lead to poor health and a shorter health span.
—Alexa Mikhail, Flow Space, 5 Sep. 2025
This new exhibit explores the city and the historic excavation in equal measure.
—Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 12 Sep. 2025
Co-written with Claire Douglas, Hannah Ellis, and Jason Massey, the song explores the uneasy tendency to sabotage our own happiness, pairing wistful guitars with Velasco's soaring vocals.
—Daniel Fusch, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
Told in two timelines, Letters to Kafka explores her role as an active resistance fighter in Czechoslovakia after the Nazis annexed the country in 1938, and her life in Vienna from 1918 to 1925, forging her own path separate from her husband, and Kafka.
—Christine Estima
september 12, Literary Hub, 12 Sep. 2025
Andrea Grisdale’s Italian Routes, a new docuseries, explores the heart of Italy through the voices of those who experience it every day.
—Roger Sands, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Through a collection of contemporary works, the exhibition explores themes of identity, heritage and global interconnectedness through multiple genres, including paintings, photography, sculpture and text.
—Amy Carleton, Charlotte Observer, 11 Sep. 2025
Now in its fourth season, Zatima explores all the messy, heartfelt moments of love and life.
—Samantha Stutsman, PEOPLE, 11 Sep. 2025
About five years ago, Bernow noticed the mounting interest in rejuvenative medicine, which explores ways to protect the body against the chronic diseases that lead to poor health and a shorter health span.
—Alexa Mikhail, Flow Space, 5 Sep. 2025
This new exhibit explores the city and the historic excavation in equal measure.
—Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for explores
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ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.—
Duaa Eldeib,
ProPublica,
10 Sep. 2025
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Michael ‘Mike’ McCall, founder of MPM Consulting LLC, a forensic accounting firm that investigates allegations of unauthorized financial activities, has seen this shift firsthand.—
Jason Phillips,
USA Today,
5 Sep. 2025
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One agent searches through system information to identify suspicious behavior, another revises security policies to prevent future threats of the same kind and a third tests the defenses of the system by staging an attack.—
Perry Carpenter,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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Kecmanović, a steady pro who will test the Brazilian’s rally tolerance, isn’t an ideal opponent as Fonseca searches for his first main-draw win in New York.—
Matthew Futterman,
New York Times,
25 Aug. 2025
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Produced by Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, in association with Wolf Entertainment, Law & Order examines the criminal justice system and tells the stories of the police who investigate crime and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
9 Sep. 2025
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In his brilliant book A Little Devil in America, Hanif Abdurraqib examines how Black performance is woven into the fabric of American life and culture—adored, abhorred, exploited, commodified, appropriated.—
Lauren Morrow
September 9,
Literary Hub,
9 Sep. 2025
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