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poke around



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Idioms and Phrases

Also, poke about . Look through things; also, make an investigation. For example, I was poking around the attic when I found these old photos , or The detective was poking about, tracking where she went on that fatal day . [Early 1800s] Also see nose about ; poke one's nose into .
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His administration has gone on a firing spree, directing federal agencies to lay off the more than 200,000 probationary government workers, offering tens of thousands of federal employees a dubious buyout offer, and empowering an unelected billionaire to poke around in nearly every federal agency to find even more people to fire while also slashing congressionally approved budgets.

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Then he had a poke around in his box.

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The seeming source, a 2014 travel magazine article, describes “imposing houses with beautiful courtyards, simple on the outside, but flowery inside. To poke around this neighborhood is to discover high ivy-covered walls, lattice doors, miniature fountains and stony soils.”

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Acland says she decided to “poke around” into Gino’s work in September 2023, after the researcher filed a $25 million lawsuit against HBS and the data sleuths who uncovered the misconduct.

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A team from Anchorage finally arrives to take the bodies away, despite Danvers’s desire to poke around them a little more for clues.

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