interrogate
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"Our specialist teams have been working tirelessly to interrogate the many lines of enquiry involved in this hugely complex investigation," he said.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
"Defectors are the main source of information about the North," said Fyodor Tertitsky, lecturer at Seoul's Korea University, noting both South Korean intelligence and researchers interrogate them.
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
The Federal Bureau of Investigation trains its agents to notice common signs of mendacity in the people they interrogate: a raised eyebrow, a subtle wince.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Did ordinary people really want to interrogate Thanksgiving like this?
From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026
She proceeded to pump me about my family and circumstances, pressing me until I said, “I hadn’t thought it was the custom here to interrogate visitors.”
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
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In “Willing and Able,” he interrogates his motivation as an artist, and whether he exploits those close to him for material—“And I’ll see you again in six months, when you need your next song.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026
Nevertheless, “Devil in Disguise” interrogates the police’s tendency to mischaracterize his victims, fueling the media and the public’s subsequent rush to cast the dead as somehow deserving of their fate.
From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2025
ICE protests downtown had a powerful backdrop: the 1990 Barbara Kruger mural ‘Questions,’ which interrogates the very nature of power and control.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2025
Unafraid to grapple with tough conversations and moments of internal crisis, “Materialists” exudes a chic glamour as it interrogates the tough choices, motivations and consequences of modern romance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2025
It is a young girl who thus strangely interrogates, a beautiful girl, woman grown, of tall stature, with bright face, and a wealth of hair, golden hued.
From Gwen Wynn by Mayne Reid
This was a TV personality who was very much part of my youth, but now being interrogated with his liberty on the line.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
Police interrogated him, raided his home and office before accusing him of plotting against the constitutional order.
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026
That title refers in part to George W. Bush, but chiefly to Saddam Hussein: It was Nixon who first interrogated the notorious Iraqi leader, a slippery subject and indignant prisoner.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
One of the officers who had interrogated Smith after his arrest later testified that he believed Smith was innocent.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
Dad interrogated, now back over by the door.
From "All American Boys" by Jason Reynolds
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"Ask some open questions, instead of interrogating them," he says.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
And if the conventional wisdom about a candidate is a lot friendlier on that platform than on a competitor’s, I’d spend some extra time interrogating why that might be happening.
From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2026
Mr. Kendall’s biography avoids being an intrusive, interrogating look at the cartoonist and his longstanding narrative.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
Katie’s journey towards a fully autonomous adulthood is their way of interrogating that, making her story as central to “Rooster” as Greg’s reinvention.
From Salon ● May 11, 2026
She mulled that over a few seconds, but she had to get to work on time and couldn’t devote her full energies to interrogating.
From "The Pigman" by Paul Zindel
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