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`Are you really happy with him,' asked her mother, gazing at Vera searchingly
- Pressed against the breast-high wooden barrier, a bearded elder stared at a faded photo, glanced up, stared again, then strained his eyes searchingly across the New York pier (see .
- Recently Manager Meshki was dismissed and jailed while his affairs were searchingly probed.
- He, himself, in a House of Lords speech last year, was searchingly critical of NATO's unwieldy complexity: "Rather a lot of harness and not much horse," he called it.