interrogate
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In that scenario, the AI avatar would serve as the mayor, looking to interrogate the consultant’s recommendations, Zafar said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
"Defectors are the main source of information about the North," said Fyodor Tertitsky, lecturer at Seoul's Korea University, noting both South Korean intelligence and researchers interrogate them.
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
Did ordinary people really want to interrogate Thanksgiving like this?
From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026
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
In two years, astonishingly, Mendel had produced a set of reagents that would allow him to interrogate some of the most important features of heredity.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Wright also interrogates the boundary between severe mental illness and evil, and wonders whether, even in extreme cases, redemption might be possible.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
Fielder interrogates their initial meeting and how their relationship unfolded in the film.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 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
While reveling in the silly masquerade, “Fake It Until You Make It” interrogates the meaning of racial identity and authenticity, leaving no dogmatic position unscathed by irony.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2025
It is a young girl who thus strangely interrogates, a beautiful girl, woman grown, of tall stature, with bright face, and a wealth of hair, golden hued.
From Gwen Wynn by Mayne Reid
Later, the government built an inspection station on Angel Island in San Francisco where it held and interrogated anyone arriving from China, sometimes for months.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026
The officers interrogated her, and many others, for several hours.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
That title refers in part to George W. Bush, but chiefly to Saddam Hussein: It was Nixon who first interrogated the notorious Iraqi leader, a slippery subject and indignant prisoner.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 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
This time Winnie was not being arrested, or detained, or interrogated; she was being banished to a remote township in the Free State called Brandfort.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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"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
I wish the show’s wall text and labels weren’t so overloaded with jargon, verbs like navigating, negotiating, interrogating, decentering, decontextualizing, disrupting and destabilizing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026
Roy figured it came from years of interrogating shifty characters—gangsters or spies, or whoever it was that his father was in the business of investigating.
From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen
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