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The Federal Bureau of Investigation trains its agents to notice common signs of mendacity in the people they interrogate: a raised eyebrow, a subtle wince.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026

“Tandoori, Harrison, and Hugo are all minors. You had no right to interrogate them without a parent or guardian ad litem present.”

From "Confessions of a Murder Suspect" by James Patterson

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

It is a story that interrogates — with a searching and brutal tenderness — the how, why and who of our emotional being.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 27, 2026

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

“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

That title refers in part to George W. Bush, but chiefly to Saddam Hussein: It was Nixon who first interrogated the notorious Iraqi leader, a slippery subject and indignant prisoner.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

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

From BBC ● May 15, 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

"The investigation into circumstances surrounding events in Gloucestershire is hugely complex, and our specialist teams are interrogating multiple lines of enquiry," she said.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 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

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

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

“Is this how you normally get to know people, by interrogating them?”

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah