inquisition
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Writing in Spanish daily publication El Mundo in 2024, Shakira, 49, compared the tax office investigations into her affairs to an "inquisition trial".
From BBC • May 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
In March 2020, COVID-19 caused the indefinite postponement of the state’s second inquisition.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2025
For example, there’s Pirate Day, when campers learn about Jews who were expelled to the Caribbean during the Spanish inquisition and found livelihoods as pirates.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 11, 2023
At parties they start to ask leading questions that have the ring of inquisition; they are interested in my positions, my dogmas.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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