inquisitor
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After listing Oppenheimer’s wartime accomplishments, including overseeing the invention of the plutonium bomb, Rabi asked the inquisitors, “What more do you want, mermaids?”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2026
Across different media, senses sharpened by TikToks detailing the latest “tells,” A.I. inquisitors are ready to pounce.
From Slate • Aug. 20, 2025
The other bidders have spent time and money preparing proposals to satisfy a formidable armada of inquisitors.
From BBC • Nov. 20, 2023
The fact that inquisitors could seize the lands and property of the condemned provided an unfortunate incentive to keep the persecution going.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
What about Galileo, standing before his inquisitors, saying ‘The earth does move!’
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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