interrogatory
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Polished, urbane and preternaturally prepared, Cornwell’s sometimes mischievous demeanor forms a kind of shadow narrative, a fascinating carapace that Morris’s interrogatory arrows fail to fully pierce.
From New York Times ● Oct. 19, 2023
It's a helpful interrogatory narrative device which allows the show to jump back and forward in time, as Savile reflects on his life and career.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2023
Unsurprisingly, I turned first to essays, that interrogatory genre in which we confront a consciousness in conversation with itself.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2020
Separately, at the Senate impeachment trial Thursday, Warren posed a question that, by rule, was read aloud by Roberts -- and even Democrats in the chamber appeared visibly puzzled by the interrogatory.
From Fox News ● Jan. 30, 2020
Nodding, Dr. Trefusis asked me to fetch my Locke; which I did, receiving a baleful interrogatory look from Clippinger.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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Over five weeks, the CID demands answers to multiple complex interrogatories and IH testimony on extraordinarily broad topics for which no witness could responsibly be prepared to provide complete and accurate testimony.
From The Verge ● Aug. 16, 2022
“The nature and large number of proposed interrogatories represents a stark departure from previous inquests,” the motion says.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 7, 2021
Monroe offered to sit for a deposition and ultimately submitted answers to written interrogatories.
From Reuters ● Jul. 9, 2020
Commonly used methods of discovery include taking depositions, or sworn testimony, ahead of time; requests or court-issued subpoenas to obtain documents; and interrogatories, which are lists of questions the recipients must answer.
From Slate ● Dec. 6, 2018
A little reflection ought to have shown these gentlemen, who made these appeals to me, that the time and place were both inauspicious in which to address to me such interrogatories.
From The History Of The Last Trial By Jury For Atheism In England A Fragment of Autobiography Submitted for the Perusal of Her Majesty's Attorney-General and the British Clergy by George Jacob Holyoake