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interrogate

[in-ter-uh-geyt] / ɪnˈtɛr əˌgeɪt /


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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

“Maybe they need to interrogate what’s in front of them more closely,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 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

In two years, astonishingly, Mendel had produced a set of reagents that would allow him to interrogate some of the most important features of heredity.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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

ICE protests downtown had a powerful backdrop: the 1990 Barbara Kruger mural ‘Questions,’ which interrogates the very nature of power and control.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 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 Don Estevan who thus doubtingly interrogates, his eyes fixed on a solitary eminence seen afar over the plain.

From The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora by Mayne Reid

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

He was interrogated alongside his running mate in the presence of their lawyers, he said.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

One of the officers who had interrogated Smith after his arrest later testified that he believed Smith was innocent.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

Security agents interrogated people suspected of participating in its activities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026

For now Leo clearly didn’t want to be interrogated.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

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

Mr. Kendall’s biography avoids being an intrusive, interrogating look at the cartoonist and his longstanding narrative.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 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

Leo wasn’t sure whether he felt relieved or insulted that the combat trainer was interrogating Frank, while Leo got the home economics teacher.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan




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