Synonyms for exploratory
ɪkˈsplɔr əˌtɔr i, -ˈsploʊr əˌtoʊr iex·plorato·ry

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1. exploratory, explorativeadjective

   serving in or intended for exploration or discovery

   "an exploratory operation"; "exploratory reconnaissance"; "digging an exploratory well in the Gulf of Mexico"; "exploratory talks between diplomats"

   Synonyms:
   explorative

   Antonyms:
   unexploratory, unexplorative, nonexploratory, nonexplorative

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1. List of paraphrases for "exploratory":

   take-note, exploration, scoping, preliminary, fact-finding, pathfinder, frontier, reconnaissance

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1. Janice Schneider:

   The rules help ensure that any exploratory drilling operations in this highly challenging environment will be conducted in a safe and environmentally responsible manner, while protecting the marine, coastal and human environments, and Alaska Natives’ cultural traditions and access to subsistence resources.

2. Rupert Grint:

   It was really exciting, he told Fox News at the premiere in Los Angeles on Thursday. I’ve never done anything like this … I mean I didn’t take a huge role in the producing, but it was kind of [a] more exploratory kind of thing.

3. Chief Operating Officer Greg Hill:

   We have significantly decreased our 2016 capital and exploratory expenditures, and we plan to reduce activity at all of our producing assets.

4. Richard Peirce:

   A shark has got no paws or hands, so if it wants to explore something, the only capability it's got to do that is to put it in its mouth, that's why we often get exploratory bites which don't result in death and sometimes don't even result in serious injury. If you go swimming and splashing away, you're almost inviting the shark to come give you an exploratory or an attack bite.

5. Andy Przybylski:

   Second, the study doesn't measure either digital media use or ADHD directly. For both the study relies on survey responses provided by the student in question. It is not clear if teachers or parents would rate the children similarly or if the self-reported measure of digital screen use is correlated with either actual behaviour or higher quality survey items, finally, because this was an exploratory study, instead of a registered or confirmatory study, the results must be understood as tentative.