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Definition of Probers
1. prober [n] - See also: prober
Lexicographical Neighbors of Probers
Literary usage of Probers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Men who are Making America by Bertie Charles Forbes (1917)
"This organization can speculate all it wants, although Mr. Baker told the Pujo
probers that its stock transactions did not average more than 100 shares a ..."
2. Men who are Making America by Bertie Charles Forbes (1922)
"How small a matter a few hundred thousand dollars later became to Mr. Baker may
be gathered from the fact that when asked by the Pujo probers if he held any ..."
3. The Birds of America by John James] [Audubon (1843)
"The Woodcock and the Snipe, it is true, are probers as well as it, but their task
requires less ingenuity than is exercised by the White or the Red Ibis. ..."
4. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1909)
"There are many brilliant analysts, daring anatomists, fearless probers into the
very springs of life. But for a thousand such, there has been only one ..."
5. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1915)
"... probers, scratchers, borers, gleaners' ; (4) 'vegetable feeders',—seed eaters,
fruit eaters. A convincing colored plate by LA Fuertes depicts the Horned ..."
6. The Writings of John Burroughs by John Burroughs (1913)
"Other birds are scratchers or probers or drillers, and they are under the tyranny
of their organization in the same way. The hog must root, the hawk must ..."
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