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scrutiny

[skroot-n-ee] / ˈskrut n i /


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But Netflix’s growing market power has attracted an unusual level of antitrust scrutiny.

From MarketWatch Jul. 14, 2026

Interior ministry official Unsit Sampuntharat said Tuesday that the venue's license was also under scrutiny, amid questions over whether it was authorised to host live music.

From Barron's Jul. 14, 2026

The incident draws renewed scrutiny on DHS and ICE.

From BBC Jul. 14, 2026

Bardella's age and lack of experience, many feared, would have come under close scrutiny and could have become a liability.

From BBC Jul. 10, 2026

The navigator and I have it easy—my drawings and his charts are treated as beyond scrutiny.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

In the late 1920s, his close analysis of a Shakespeare sonnet impressed Critic William Empson and led, indirectly, to the textual scrutinies of the New Criticism of the 1940s and '50s.

From Time Magazine Archive

Tellingly, Maritain notes what too many U.S. literary critics have ignored: that "American literature, in its most objective scrutinies, has been preoccupied with the beyond and the nameless which haunt our blood."

From Time Magazine Archive

Our united scrutinies discovered no figure which could have been that of the Chinese doctor.

From The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu by Rohmer, Sax

The Scottish banking system underwent the severest of all scrutinies before committees of the Houses of Peers and of the Commons; and the following was the nature of the reports.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 350, December 1844 by Various

Out of their heartbreaking scrutinies there have come certain determinations which are being adopted rapidly wherever the social sense is aroused.

From The Business of Being a Woman by Tarbell, Ida M.




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