inquisition

Panicked, he informed on some of his screenwriting colleagues, hoping for exoneration from a merciless inquisition that would ruin many livelihoods and degrade the entire industry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

As the Spurs supporters poured into their favourite watering holes and haunts around the stadium, the inquisition, and plotting for the future, should have already begun inside.

From BBC ● May 24, 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

O’Connor suggests that parents turn the inquisition back on their children by asking, “That’s an interesting question. What do you think?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2024

But anyone who fell afoul of them was still put through the ordeal of inquisition as a traitor.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

Hansen’s spontaneous inquisitions never turned up an answer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2025

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

Admiral Chester Nimitz and Major General Kenyon Joyce, two renowned local war heroes, rounded out its membership, though they generally sat by silently during hearings while Neylan conducted the inquisitions.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik