interrogate
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Did ordinary people really want to interrogate Thanksgiving like this?
From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026
Teaming them up as a testy odd couple allows “Lanterns” to both highlight Hal’s insecurity and use the Green Lantern universe’s rules to interrogate systemic imbalances.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
“Maybe they need to interrogate what’s in front of them more closely,” he says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
She also made Hall's family members "interested persons", meaning they would be able to interrogate evidence or witnesses at a future inquest.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026
She was teaching me how to ruthlessly interrogate the subject that elicited the most sympathy and rationalizing— myself.
From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
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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
Through its structure, casting, music and lyrics, “Hamilton” interrogates the dominant, whitewashed narrative of America.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2025
The U-M team sorts and interrogates recycled pacemakers, only reconditioning those that have more than four years of battery life.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 20, 2024
This introductory part being ended, the priest begins a fresh tack, and interrogates the penitent upon infractions not specified in any of the commandments.
From Roman Catholicism in Spain by Anonymous
Once in El Salvador, the crewmen of the Don Maca say they were interrogated, denied they were traffickers, and, eventually, were allowed to contact their families and leave for home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026
Before the FBI interrogated him, they asked him to sign a piece of paper.
From Slate ● Apr. 19, 2026
But The Wall Street Journal spoke to two men who said they were detained and interrogated by Hamas at Nasser hospital in recent weeks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 15, 2026
It suspends the right of assembly and permits individuals to be arrested and interrogated without a court order.
From Barron's ● Jan. 19, 2026
Both North and South Vietnam interrogated prisoners in an attempt to gain military information.
From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge
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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
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
It’s also not like superhero comic books haven’t had storylines about marginalized communities or interrogating people in power.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026
A January 2016 message showed Epstein interrogating her over photos she had posted of herself and other assistants on Facebook, which he blamed for drawing attention from the Daily Mail.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 15, 2026
Then Jazz, who at the time was only six, picked up where Doris left off and started interrogating him, asking him all kinds of crazy stuff.
From "When I Was the Greatest" by Jason Reynolds
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