interrogate
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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
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
Hansen would then make a dramatic entrance and interrogate the men, who would often stammer and bumble through the encounter before leaving.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026
“When I have party meetings and they bring executives that are likely to be witnesses, I interrogate the executives,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 8, 2026
She was teaching me how to ruthlessly interrogate the subject that elicited the most sympathy and rationalizing— myself.
From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
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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
Reuniting key creative players from the first film after more than 20 years, the new movie interrogates ideas of memory, legacy and what gets left behind.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 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
A police official thus interrogates a wandering workman:— “What is he?”
From A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France by Duthie, William
Before the FBI interrogated him, they asked him to sign a piece of paper.
From Slate ● Apr. 19, 2026
And suspicion lands on Clark, who is interrogated for what seems like days without access to legal counsel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026
It suspends the right of assembly and permits individuals to be arrested and interrogated without a court order.
From Barron's ● Jan. 19, 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
Both North and South Vietnam interrogated prisoners in an attempt to gain military information.
From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge
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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
Iran's feared judiciary chief Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei appeared to take the lead earlier this month by personally interrogating detainees in sessions broadcast by state TV.
From Barron's ● Jan. 26, 2026
Then Jazz, who at the time was only six, picked up where Doris left off and started interrogating him, asking him all kinds of crazy stuff.
From "When I Was the Greatest" by Jason Reynolds
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