inquisition
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Tuttle’s fearless inquisition won’t insult your intelligence, ask your mercy or hogtie your feelings.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 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
Every inquisition into exactly who’s to blame for this unmitigated disaster has to begin by looking in the mirror.
From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2025
Horner's PR minder let the inquisition continue by and large.
From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2024
She’d asked Wes about the shoes when they started to multiply, but after her first inquisition, she’d left the subject alone.
From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore
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Early on, Callas parried these inquisitions with humor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 27, 2024
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
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
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