inquisition

LONDON—The death of a former University of Cambridge professor has triggered a moment of introspection about whether he was the victim of a racially charged public inquisition or a system designed to promote diversity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

England will face an inquisition when they get home with coach Brendon McCullum's job in the spotlight.

From Barron's ● Jan. 8, 2026

In March 2020, COVID-19 caused the indefinite postponement of the state’s second inquisition.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2025

Every inquisition into exactly who’s to blame for this unmitigated disaster has to begin by looking in the mirror.

From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2025

At parties they start to ask leading questions that have the ring of inquisition; they are interested in my positions, my dogmas.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

The Council of Swedish Jewish Communities deplored the police decision to allow the protest, saying, “our tragic European history links the burning of Jewish books with pogroms, expulsions, inquisitions and the Holocaust.”

From Washington Times ● Jul. 14, 2023

It contained uncanny, elevated descriptions of sound and performance, offered grounded philosophical inquisitions and sprinkled in wink-nudge personal asides.

From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2021

Stop the reproduction inquisitions during wine nights and happy hours.

From Salon ● Nov. 27, 2021

Strom’s vast sonic worlds called out for meditative inquisitions and influenced a new generation of artists creating impressionistic experimental and electronic music.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 17, 2021

They were unpleasant enough, these private inquisitions, but I cannot find words to adequately express the torments I suffered when he chose to ply this art of his in public.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt