What does look into mean?

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. investigate, look intoverb

    investigate scientifically

    "Let's investigate the syntax of Chinese"

  2. check, check up on, look into, check out, suss out, check over, go over, check intoverb

    examine so as to determine accuracy, quality, or condition

    "check the brakes"; "Check out the engine"

Wiktionary

  1. look intoverb

    to investigate, explore, or consider

ChatGPT

  1. look into

    To "look into" generally means to investigate, research, or examine something or a situation in a detailed and thorough manner. This could involve seeking more information, analyzing facts, or scrutinizing all possible aspects to gain a better understanding or find a solution. It is often used in the context of problem-solving or decision-making process.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of look into in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of look into in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of look into in a Sentence

  1. James Brown:

    For instance, there is a low representation of African American students in engineering. Sometimes you have students who come from backgrounds where there isn’t a relative or a parent who is involved in engineering, so it’s important that these companies and organizations provide mentors who these students can look to and learn from, if these students who come from disadvantaged backgrounds have mentors to learn from, then they are more likely to look into STEM as a possibility, to be excited by STEM in school.

  2. Matthias Egger:

    We want to look into what’s the impact on marine life. And once we know for sure that it’s safe and it benefits the environment, then we want to scale up.

  3. Jenny Higgins:

    Someone might look into alternatives such as herbs, spend time trying to gather information, procure that substance, take the herb, take it again, take it again, and by then, they are later in gestation and maybe even less likely to be able to access effective methods, there's a real-time constraint here.

  4. Steven Phillipson:

    Traditional therapy, like analysis, is not only ineffective but highly detrimental, to look into the nature of the thoughts as if there’s some underlying issue going on— or an analyst saying, ‘Oh, if you have thoughts about harming your child, we need to look deeper into your underlining anger issues’— that’s really not what’s going on. They’re still trying to seethe thoughts as the problem, which they’re not.

  5. Don Lincoln:

    Despite the fact he worked in fiction, anyone who can inspire that many people to look into the sky and wonder has done something really important for mankind.


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