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interrogate

[in-ter-uh-gayt] / ɪnˈtɛr əˌgeɪt /


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"Defectors are the main source of information about the North," said Fyodor Tertitsky, lecturer at Seoul's Korea University, noting both South Korean intelligence and researchers interrogate them.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

Did ordinary people really want to interrogate Thanksgiving like this?

From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026

She should read labels, mistrust mysterious additives, interrogate old nutritional orthodoxies and learn to distinguish “real” food from whatever came before it.

From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026

“Maybe they need to interrogate what’s in front of them more closely,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026

Or worse, they'd learn about her affiliation with me and interrogate her.

From "Legend" by Marie Lu

In “Willing and Able,” he interrogates his motivation as an artist, and whether he exploits those close to him for material—“And I’ll see you again in six months, when you need your next song.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026

Nevertheless, “Devil in Disguise” interrogates the police’s tendency to mischaracterize his victims, fueling the media and the public’s subsequent rush to cast the dead as somehow deserving of their fate.

From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2025

ICE protests downtown had a powerful backdrop: the 1990 Barbara Kruger mural ‘Questions,’ which interrogates the very nature of power and control.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2025

The U-M team sorts and interrogates recycled pacemakers, only reconditioning those that have more than four years of battery life.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 20, 2024

It is a young girl who thus strangely interrogates, a beautiful girl, woman grown, of tall stature, with bright face, and a wealth of hair, golden hued.

From Gwen Wynn by Mayne Reid

Pujo’s counsel, Samuel Untermyer, interrogated Morgan relentlessly, forcing the banker into transparently false denials.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

He was interrogated alongside his running mate in the presence of their lawyers, he said.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

One of the officers who had interrogated Smith after his arrest later testified that he believed Smith was innocent.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

It interrogated the criteria of credibility themselves—what makes a teaching trustworthy, what makes a source authoritative, what distinguishes faithful transmission from motivated distortion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

When the FBI interrogated Haupt, he at first denied knowing anything about Operation Pastorius.

From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple

"The investigation into circumstances surrounding events in Gloucestershire is hugely complex, and our specialist teams are interrogating multiple lines of enquiry," she said.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

And if the conventional wisdom about a candidate is a lot friendlier on that platform than on a competitor’s, I’d spend some extra time interrogating why that might be happening.

From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2026

Mr. Kendall’s biography avoids being an intrusive, interrogating look at the cartoonist and his longstanding narrative.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

Katie’s journey towards a fully autonomous adulthood is their way of interrogating that, making her story as central to “Rooster” as Greg’s reinvention.

From Salon ● May 11, 2026

The FBI had begun laying the groundwork for the case in the late 1940s, interrogating Langley employees about their knowledge of Perl and his possible conspirators.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly




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