inquisition

LONDON—The death of a former University of Cambridge professor has triggered a moment of introspection about whether he was the victim of a racially charged public inquisition or a system designed to promote diversity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

England will face an inquisition when they get home with coach Brendon McCullum's job in the spotlight.

From Barron's ● Jan. 8, 2026

Their motivation is to avert the horror show of one win from four with a trip to Paris to come and the grand inquisition of the coaches that would come with it.

From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2025

O’Connor suggests that parents turn the inquisition back on their children by asking, “That’s an interesting question. What do you think?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2024

Miss Annie had immediately started an inquisition about that as soon as it had appeared, screaming questions through her shutters.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

The Council of Swedish Jewish Communities deplored the police decision to allow the protest, saying, “our tragic European history links the burning of Jewish books with pogroms, expulsions, inquisitions and the Holocaust.”

From Washington Times ● Jul. 14, 2023

It contained uncanny, elevated descriptions of sound and performance, offered grounded philosophical inquisitions and sprinkled in wink-nudge personal asides.

From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2021

Stop the reproduction inquisitions during wine nights and happy hours.

From Salon ● Nov. 27, 2021

Strom’s vast sonic worlds called out for meditative inquisitions and influenced a new generation of artists creating impressionistic experimental and electronic music.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 17, 2021

Admiral Chester Nimitz and Major General Kenyon Joyce, two renowned local war heroes, rounded out its membership, though they generally sat by silently during hearings while Neylan conducted the inquisitions.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik