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interrogate

[in-ter-uh-geyt] / ɪnˈtɛr əˌgeɪt /


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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

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

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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