examine
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Becky Peterson graduated this month with a degree that paves the way for her to examine patients, prescribe medication and make diagnoses, just like a physician.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 2026
According to LaMonte, this is the largest study so far to examine how muscle strength relates to longevity in women over 60.
From Science Daily • May 12, 2026
Techniques such as “receiver operating characteristic curve analysis” examine how changing the threshold for an alert alters the balance between correctly identifying real events and mistakenly flagging harmless ones.
From Salon • May 12, 2026
Through the pair's conversations, the play tries to examine "what politics is and how we can disagree with one another - and that's OK, it doesn't mean you need to resort to violence", Wood says.
From BBC • May 8, 2026
“With a little help from their Frenchy friend,” added Kojo, who’d gone to the rock ledge to examine his phone.
From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein
Vocabulary lists containing examine
Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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The SAT: Language of the Test, List 5
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The Language of Standardized Tests, List 3
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