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interrogate

[in-ter-uh-geyt] / ɪnˈtɛr əˌgeɪt /


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"Defectors are the main source of information about the North," said Fyodor Tertitsky, lecturer at Seoul's Korea University, noting both South Korean intelligence and researchers interrogate them.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

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

They view location data from cell tower logs and interrogate Gazan detainees to uncover who did what.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026

Or worse, they'd learn about her affiliation with me and interrogate her.

From "Legend" by Marie Lu

One day scholars will teach Lepore’s work alongside Arendt’s, seeing that Lepore interrogates not simply a modern moment, but traces our current machine age back to the 17th-century conceit for artifice as improvement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

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

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

Now, less from anxiety as to what he has been saying at the Welsh Harp, than to know what he has there heard said by others, she further interrogates him:—“Where have you been meanwhile, monsieur?”

From Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye 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

He said they drove him to an empty field and interrogated him before his friends published the alleged attackers' names on social media, at which point the men dropped him on a nearby street.

From Barron's ● May 21, 2026

Nothing of this nature was found, but Katya was nevertheless interrogated by law enforcement.

From BBC ● May 15, 2026

They also interrogated them separately to compare stories and sift through the lies to find the truth.

From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple

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

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 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

Katie’s journey towards a fully autonomous adulthood is their way of interrogating that, making her story as central to “Rooster” as Greg’s reinvention.

From Salon ● May 11, 2026

M ., whereupon detectives, who had been strenuously but abortively interrogating the suspect, withdrew to another room, leaving the minister to consult privately with his parishioner.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote




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