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interrogate

[in-ter-uh-gayt] / ɪnˈtɛr əˌgeɪt /


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"Our specialist teams have been working tirelessly to interrogate the many lines of enquiry involved in this hugely complex investigation," he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

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

Did ordinary people really want to interrogate Thanksgiving like this?

From Slate ● Aug. 17, 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

Diallo was followed to his apartment building by four white police officers—members of the elite Street Crime Unit—who viewed him as suspicious and wanted to interrogate him.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

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

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

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

From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2025

Giddings interrogates the meaning of faith in a heady novel about love and family.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2025

It is Don Estevan who interrogates, startled out of his slumber by the report of the gambusino’s gun, which has brought him in hurried haste to the post of guard.

From The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora by Mayne Reid

Hopkins and others established local groups of the zealous who interrogated the accused by “watching and walking,” a technique of enforced sleep deprivation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

"I wanted to make something that interrogated that."

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

He was the same Gus Hathaway who had been in charge of the Moscow station when Marti Peterson was arrested, and who had interrogated Vitaly Yurchenko in 1985.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau

"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

It’s also not like superhero comic books haven’t had storylines about marginalized communities or interrogating people in power.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026

“The coppers have been secretly searching rooms and interrogating automats. They took Feste.”

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton


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