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interrogate

[in-ter-uh-geyt] / ɪnˈtɛr əˌgeɪt /


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Did ordinary people really want to interrogate Thanksgiving like this?

From Slate Aug. 17, 2026

Teaming them up as a testy odd couple allows “Lanterns” to both highlight Hal’s insecurity and use the Green Lantern universe’s rules to interrogate systemic imbalances.

From Salon Aug. 14, 2026

“Maybe they need to interrogate what’s in front of them more closely,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 30, 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

Children and servants are two groups they always interrogate.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

In one scene she attends a party with John Maynard Keynes, and she interrogates the economist much more avidly than she does the giant blue angel who materializes in Geoffrey’s bedroom.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 5, 2026

It is a story that interrogates — with a searching and brutal tenderness — the how, why and who of our emotional being.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 27, 2026

Barrie’s “Peter Pan,” which interrogates the idea of holding onto youthful innocence.

From Salon Jul. 17, 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

"What says the Signore?" interrogates the unshaved Sicilian noble; "Domanda se lei capisce il Francese?"

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 367, May 1846 by Various

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

Pujo’s counsel, Samuel Untermyer, interrogated Morgan relentlessly, forcing the banker into transparently false denials.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 7, 2026

One of the officers who had interrogated Smith after his arrest later testified that he believed Smith was innocent.

From BBC Aug. 19, 2026

Martina’s brother told Ahmad that she’d been interrogated by the FBI, that their address had been broadcast on the news, and that Martina had taken their girls to a safe place.

From Slate Apr. 19, 2026

The next morning, I was called to the commander’s office, where I found my colleague Robert Resha, who had been arrested and was being interrogated by the station commander.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

"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

I will do anything: she has only to mention his name and I remember now, I will do anything, anything, to avoid him interrogating me again.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein




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