The word "probes" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it as a verb to mean to search for information or to ask questions, or as a noun to refer to a device used to search or explore. Example sentence: The reporter probes for information about the scandal.
It could have chosen to attach probes to the North American end of the cables and documents shown to the Guardian by Edward Snowden suggest that key elements of the Tempora filtering process were designed by the NSA.
Miller, an Army veteran whose chest was festooned with medals, looked education undersecretary Ted Mitchell in the eye and asked, "Do you have any honor and dignity?" Despite mounting evidence of malfeasance at the Corinthian chain and various criminal probes and lawsuits, over half a million students remain on the hook.
Maillot's choreography showcases all the delicate expressiveness of her long arms and cantilevered back, and while it maximises the virtuoso power of her supple legs and feet, it also probes the pressures and conflicts she carries with her as a world-class ballerina.
The Guardian revealed on Friday that GCHQ has placed more than 200 probes on transatlantic cables and is processing 600m "telephone events" a day as well as up to 39m gigabytes of internet traffic.
Mining firms have exhausted their final avenue of appeal against New South Wales laws that cancelled coal licences following probes into figures including the former Labor powerbroker Eddie Obeid.
Even scarier for investment bankers are three probes into accusations of wrongdoing in the underwriting process, along with a host of class-action lawsuits on behalf of suffering investors.
Even allies like America and Britain are not beyond conducting duplicative probes, as Alstom can attest.
And the office was slow to react to a string of alleged corruption scandals involving Byron Jerez, the chief of the tax office.Another of Mr Jarquin's probes, into last year's sale of the biggest state bank, was recently ruled out of order by the Supreme Court because he did not present his report within 15 days of the deal, as the law supposedly requires.
In an interview with The Economist in May 2011, Naveen Jindal, a member of parliament and head of a steel firm worth $9 billion that is the biggest branch of the OP Jindal Group, seemed hazy about and reluctant to discuss the details of his firm.The biggest long-term risk for Indian family firms is not competition probes, rickety finances or lacklustre profits.
This was a fair enough point, since the corruption probes which triggered the impeachment process found no evidence that he had benefited from a pair of financial scandals.
Probes by Codelco's engineers found the miners still alive 17 days after the rockfall.
