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exploring

nounverbcommon in dialogue

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The action of the verb explore.

noun

  1. 1

    The action of the verb explore.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of explorepresent participle and gerund of explore

    While De Anza was exploring the Bay of San Francisco, seeking a site for the presidio, the American colonists on the eastern seaboard, three thousand miles away, were celebrating the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

Forms

plural
explorings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).