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interrogate

[in-ter-uh-gayt] / 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

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

He didn’t interrogate me or make assumptions about my life.

From "How Dare the Sun Rise" by Sandra Uwiringiyimana

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

Nevertheless, “Devil in Disguise” interrogates the police’s tendency to mischaracterize his victims, fueling the media and the public’s subsequent rush to cast the dead as somehow deserving of their fate.

From Salon ● Oct. 29, 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

Then, as if struck by something in the appearance of the corpse, he mutteringly interrogates: “Is he sure gone dead?”

From The Death Shot A Story Retold by Mayne Reid

"I wanted to make something that interrogated that."

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

Once in El Salvador, the crewmen of the Don Maca say they were interrogated, denied they were traffickers, and, eventually, were allowed to contact their families and leave for home.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026

It interrogated the criteria of credibility themselves—what makes a teaching trustworthy, what makes a source authoritative, what distinguishes faithful transmission from motivated distortion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

The Shoun brothers were brought in and interrogated over what, exactly, they had been treating Mollie with.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

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

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026

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

The teams pushed back, demanding evidence and interrogating assumptions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

She mulled that over a few seconds, but she had to get to work on time and couldn’t devote her full energies to interrogating.

From "The Pigman" by Paul Zindel




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