interrogate
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Did ordinary people really want to interrogate Thanksgiving like this?
From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026
She should read labels, mistrust mysterious additives, interrogate old nutritional orthodoxies and learn to distinguish “real” food from whatever came before it.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 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
Analysts told AFP that US government officials and lawmakers are likely to interrogate Cheng on the KMT's position on China and its decision to slash the government's special defence budget.
From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 2026
And what authority had he to interrogate him?
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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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
Barrie’s “Peter Pan,” which interrogates the idea of holding onto youthful innocence.
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2025
Reuniting key creative players from the first film after more than 20 years, the new movie interrogates ideas of memory, legacy and what gets left behind.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 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
It is the ex-man-o’-war’s man, still lying under the launch, who thus interrogates himself.
From The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea by Mayne Reid
Each day, he is interrogated for around four to six hours, sometimes longer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
She was interrogated, accused of being a spy, stripped of her security clearance and sent back to her unit in Guildford, where she was put on laundry duty.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026
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
Martina’s brother told Ahmad that she’d been interrogated by the FBI, that their address had been broadcast on the news, and that Martina had taken their girls to a safe place.
From Slate ● Apr. 19, 2026
In California, agents interrogated Carol Cummings and many of Ellsberg’s friends.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
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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
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
Lilleaas may have decided against becoming a psychologist, but she’s always interrogating her motivations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 6, 2026
His nutritional quackery even led him to monitor her regularity like a doctor, and some of their biggest fights came as a result of his interrogating Lina about her stools.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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