- past tense form of investigate.
- past participle of investigate.
investigated
Example Sentences
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The events surrounding that night have been exhaustively investigated and recounted in numerous stories, documentaries and police investigations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
South Yorkshire Police initially investigated its own former officers before the NCA took over the inquiry.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
County Coroner Shante Sanchez, who investigated Rustici’s death, supports a full kratom ban.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
While the Wisconsin team developed and tested the new reaction system in the laboratory, collaborators in Colorado investigated the underlying chemistry to determine why the approach behaves so differently.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026
It was the opposite of observation, the opposite of how Leonardo would have wanted the Mona Lisa theft investigated.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
