interrogate
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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
It also helped Korkejian understand that she wasn’t attempting to interrogate or re-create memories — her recollections were too fragmentary for that — but to capture and preserve the feeling within them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 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
Only one explanation: He’s been sent by the General to interrogate me.
From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King
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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
Through its structure, casting, music and lyrics, “Hamilton” interrogates the dominant, whitewashed narrative of America.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 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
Her album is the second part of a trilogy that interrogates the roots of American musical traditions and uncovers the often unheralded contributions made by black artists.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2024
It is a young girl who thus strangely interrogates.
From Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye by Mayne Reid
Security agents interrogated people suspected of participating in its activities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
Before the FBI interrogated him, they asked him to sign a piece of paper.
From Slate ● Apr. 19, 2026
Starting Sunday the funeral home holding his body was surrounded by dozens of soldiers, national guardsmen, and police who interrogated anyone who came close.
From Barron's ● Mar. 3, 2026
Cuba had long denied having active soldiers or security agents inside Venezuela, but freed political prisoners have often claimed they were interrogated by men with Cuban accents while in custody.
From BBC ● Jan. 5, 2026
The Shoun brothers were brought in and interrogated over what, exactly, they had been treating Mollie with.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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But Trump’s latest posts appear less interested in interrogating Washington than in imagining him as a collaborator — writing, riding and offering design tips to his 21st-century successor.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 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
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
Another, “Altars,” is a tame and ultimately bland song by Ms. Aitchison’s high standards, with a chorus—“One is not the loneliest number”—that draws on a pop cliché without interrogating or transforming it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 2026
Roy figured it came from years of interrogating shifty characters—gangsters or spies, or whoever it was that his father was in the business of investigating.
From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen
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