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interrogate

[in-ter-uh-gayt] / ɪnˈtɛr əˌgeɪt /


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Did ordinary people really want to interrogate Thanksgiving like this?

From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026

Teaming them up as a testy odd couple allows “Lanterns” to both highlight Hal’s insecurity and use the Green Lantern universe’s rules to interrogate systemic imbalances.

From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026

Analysts told AFP that US government officials and lawmakers are likely to interrogate Cheng on the KMT's position on China and its decision to slash the government's special defence budget.

From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 2026

Both actors understood the task: to interrogate what drove each man to create music and why one’s compositions outlasted the other.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026

But we’re barely hanging out for five minutes before she starts to interrogate me.

From "Amina's Song" by Hena Khan

In “Willing and Able,” he interrogates his motivation as an artist, and whether he exploits those close to him for material—“And I’ll see you again in six months, when you need your next song.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026

Barrie’s “Peter Pan,” which interrogates the idea of holding onto youthful innocence.

From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2025

Over time, Cunk has grown more antagonistic toward the talking heads she interrogates, and more willing to counter their arguments with dubious anecdotal evidence.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 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

“What is’t, I wonder?” interrogates Woodley, in a whisper, placing himself in a kneeling posture, his eyes sharply set upon the dog.

From The Death Shot A Story Retold by Mayne Reid

When he isn’t being interrogated, he spends several hours a day meditating.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

Pujo’s counsel, Samuel Untermyer, interrogated Morgan relentlessly, forcing the banker into transparently false denials.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

She was interrogated, accused of being a spy, stripped of her security clearance and sent back to her unit in Guildford, where she was put on laundry duty.

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026

Before the FBI interrogated him, they asked him to sign a piece of paper.

From Slate ● Apr. 19, 2026

The room where he had been interrogated by O’Brien was high up near the roof.

From "1984" by George Orwell

"Ask some open questions, instead of interrogating them," he says.

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026

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

I wish the show’s wall text and labels weren’t so overloaded with jargon, verbs like navigating, negotiating, interrogating, decentering, decontextualizing, disrupting and destabilizing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026

“I’m going back to Berlin. I applied for a transfer weeks ago, when we started interrogating her and that pathetic French kid. God.”

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein




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