scrutinize

The push reflects the restaurant chain’s effort to capture more group dining occasions as inflation-weary consumers scrutinize spending.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

He said the district also must scrutinize its own spending, including ensuring “major construction and capital projects are completed responsibly.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

In the past six months, other administration officials have grown concerned about how far the technology has come, and how little the administration initially did to scrutinize it, people familiar with the matter said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

He also endorsed the use of independent evaluators to scrutinize AI systems, saying Meta Superintelligence Labs, his company's AI division, already relies on outside reviewers.

From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026

She waves her hand, pushing me to scrutinize the poor girl.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

The probe is the first into a Chinese deal under the EU’s Foreign Subsidies Regulation, which scrutinizes non-EU government support.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026

“Eddington” scrutinizes our national psyche so intensely that it makes folks itchy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2026

Meanwhile, an explosion of popular literature scrutinizes those rules and places white people’s elevated status in sharp relief.

From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2025

Now, she is moving again—this time into the House of Lords, the United Kingdom’s unelected upper legislative chamber that scrutinizes, amends, and approves proposed legislation.

From Science Magazine ● May 10, 2024

He scrutinizes me, shoots an oyster of dark brown tobacco juice out the side of his mouth, and goes back inside.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

The note scrutinized four distinct channels by which AI might contribute to pricing pressures: software and accessories, consumer electronics, electricity prices and other cost spillovers like industrial metals and construction wage growth.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026

Metro has scrutinized Metrolink over safety concerns and service cuts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

The court has also been thrown into disarray as investigations have scrutinized links between several justices, their relatives or associates, and jailed, fraud-accused banker Daniel Vorcaro.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

While that is accurate, statements like this make the conflict seem normal and perhaps unavoidable, rather than the result of a linked set of decisions that might themselves be scrutinized.

From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026

To try to put them on their best behavior, he told his subjects that their performance would be scrutinized later by a classmate.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

The 30-year-old curator at the Art Gallery of Ontario had been scrutinizing a portrait of a young Black woman bedecked in jewels and wearing a shimmering blue gown with pearls around her neck and wrists.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

But unlike the show it’s scrutinizing, “Primetime” lets its prey walk free.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026

Accident investigators probing an Amazon cargo flight crash in Miami are scrutinizing the speed of the aircraft, whether an airport safeguard might have helped prevent the tragedy and whether the weather played a role.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

The measure would also bring drones under the arms restriction regime and increase the number of experts scrutinizing the existing embargo.

From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026

“That is a better face than the other one,” she says, scrutinizing his appearance through mist and smoke.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern