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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 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

“Maybe they need to interrogate what’s in front of them more closely,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026

Chapter 2 described the first step in some detail, including the legal rules that grant police the discretion and authority to stop, interrogate, and search anyone, anywhere, provided they get “consent” from the targeted individual.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

In one scene she attends a party with John Maynard Keynes, and she interrogates the economist much more avidly than she does the giant blue angel who materializes in Geoffrey’s bedroom.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 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

Giddings interrogates the meaning of faith in a heady novel about love and family.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 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

“But surely we’ve nothing to fear from them?” interrogates the younger Gancy; Henry Chester affirming, “No, surely not.”

From The Land of Fire A Tale of Adventure by Mayne Reid

One of the officers who had interrogated Smith after his arrest later testified that he believed Smith was innocent.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 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

He said they drove him to an empty field and interrogated him before his friends published the alleged attackers' names on social media, at which point the men dropped him on a nearby street.

From Barron's ● May 21, 2026

Security agents interrogated people suspected of participating in its activities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026

They took Shin to the big bare room where, in early April, he had first been interrogated.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden

"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

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

Pauline Hawthorne’s work, she learned, was known for its immediacy and its intimacy, for interrogating images of femininity and identity.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng