examine

Definition for examine

verb as in analyze, test

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audit, check, check out, consider, criticize, delve into, explore, inspect, investigate, ponder, pore over, probe, read, research, review, scan, screen, scrutinize, study, survey, try, vet, view

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appraise, assay, canvass, case, eye, finger, frisk, gun, inquire, parse, peruse, prospect, prove, reconnoiter, sift, sweep, weigh, winnow

Weak matches

chew over, dig into, go into, go over, go through, look over, pat down, pick at, scope, scrutinate, search into, size up, take stock of, turn over

verb as in ask questions pointedly

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check, measure, try

Strong matches

catechize, experiment, grill, inquire, interrogate, judge, pump, query, quiz, weigh

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cross-examine, give the third, give the third degree, put through the wringer, try out

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To examine this secretive world, The Times scoured thousands of pages of court records, internal corporate documents and regulatory filings, and interviewed 100 migrant employees, as well as regulators and industry experts.

From New York Times

The research, published in the Journal of Applied Psychology, used surveys and field experiments to examine the impact of "Jekyll-and-Hyde" leadership on more than 650 full-time employees based in the United States and Europe.

From Science Daily

“The Saints” examines its subjects as human beings, flaws and all, in dramatizations that have the kind of cinematic feel viewers expect from a Scorsese project.

From Los Angeles Times

The work will feed into a public inquiry – which will examine alleged abuses including forced adoptions.

From BBC

The team was able to show this with micron-sized samples of the material, which they produced using 3D laser printing technology and examined with a camera-equipped microscope.

From Science Daily

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