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scrutiny

[skroot-n-ee] / ˈskrut n i /


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Mayor of London Sir Sadiq Khan is among those who have said Arday was subjected to unrelenting media scrutiny.

From BBC Aug. 15, 2026

Farage resigned as an MP last month and stood in the subsequent by-election after facing intense scrutiny over financial support he has received.

From BBC Aug. 14, 2026

In July, as scrutiny of the outbreak intensified, company executives and lobbyists met privately with the White House.

From Salon Aug. 14, 2026

The snap poll, called when Farage resigned last month from parliament amid scrutiny into his finances, was dismissed by some voters in the eastern constituency of Clacton as a "farce".

From Barron's Aug. 14, 2026

The man stopped eating, and regarded me with the keenest scrutiny and the greatest surprise.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

Tellingly, Maritain notes what too many U.S. literary critics have ignored: that "American literature, in its most objective scrutinies, has been preoccupied with the beyond and the nameless which haunt our blood."

From Time Magazine Archive

In the late 1920s, his close analysis of a Shakespeare sonnet impressed Critic William Empson and led, indirectly, to the textual scrutinies of the New Criticism of the 1940s and '50s.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Scottish banking system underwent the severest of all scrutinies before committees of the Houses of Peers and of the Commons; and the following was the nature of the reports.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 350, December 1844 by Various

The Pope, who was appealed to, expressed his regret, but declined to put any pressure on the reluctant abbot: two more scrutinies followed, and finally Abbot von Stotzingen, of Maria-laach, was elected by seventy-five votes.

From A New Medley of Memories by David Hunter-Blair

When she had dwelt upon the problem for a couple of months she prepared the results of her scrutinies and offered them in a complete and alarming dossier to Jocelyn.

From The Tragic Bride by Francis Brett Young




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