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inquisition

noun as in official inquiry

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The state Senate that ordered the process is calling it an audit, and all the ballots are being recounted, but it’s not really an audit or a recount — it’s a partisan inquisition.

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

They will be subjected to inquisition, and will await resurrection in the grave like any normal Muslim.

In a meeting at the Vatican, Netanyahu and the pontiff talk Syria and Iran and Francis gets a book on the Spanish Inquisition.

Why is the agency getting what amounts to a free ride in the current inquisition?

The Armstrong-Winfrey inquisition continued Friday night, yielding these major bombshells.

“When you say ‘Christianity’ to Israelis they immediately think of the Holocaust and the [Spanish] Inquisition,” he told Haaretz.

When I was at Portugal, there was held at that time the court of justice of the Inquisition.

Philip Limborch died; a Dutch professor of divinity, and author of a history of the inquisition.

After an uncertain period of waiting, the orderly called "Gordon MacRae," and the inquisition began.

In the midst of their conjuring, the Inquisition came down upon them.

In 1726 he was denounced to the Inquisition for the offence of reading forbidden books.

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On this page you'll find 31 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to inquisition, such as: interrogation, cross-examination, inquiry, investigation, trial, and third degree.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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