exploratory investigation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofexploratoryandinvestigation
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exploratory
adjective
uk/ekˈsplɒr.ə.tər.i/us/ekˈsplɑː.rə.tɔːr.i/
done in order to discover more ...
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investigation
noun[C or U]
uk/ɪnˌves.tɪˈɡeɪ.ʃən/us/ɪnˌves.təˈɡeɪ.ʃən/
the act or process of examining a crime, problem, statement, etc. carefully, especially to discover ...
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Worry, worry processes and dimensions of delusions : anexploratoryinvestigationof a role for anxiety processes in the maintenance of delusional distress.
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Because this is anexploratoryinvestigationof aspects of ethnicity that have previously been ignored, the discussion is necessarily speculative.
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Aspects of patients' experiences may have been missed in thisexploratoryinvestigation, and results should not be generalized as pertaining to all patients with myeloma.
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Worry, worry processes and dimensions of delusions : anexploratoryinvestigationof a role for anxiety processes in the maintenance of delusional distress.
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Social exchange processes in leisure and non-leisure settings : a review andexploratoryinvestigation.
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Nothing such as we know happens today—in some instances theexploratoryinvestigationis of a most deplorable kind—then existed at all.
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Secondly, does the reference to mining include the cost ofexploratoryinvestigationas well as equipment for mining?
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Our exploratory investigations of neighbourhood effects reported here use all of these.
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These numbers were chosen on the basis of exploratory investigations of parameter space to determine a range of infectious periods which incorporates the maximum-likelihood estimate for this parameter.
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We note that these are exploratory investigations.
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Considerable exploratory investigations are required.
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