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interrogate

[in-ter-uh-geyt] / ɪnˈtɛr əˌgeɪt /


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Did ordinary people really want to interrogate Thanksgiving like this?

From Slate Aug. 17, 2026

Teaming them up as a testy odd couple allows “Lanterns” to both highlight Hal’s insecurity and use the Green Lantern universe’s rules to interrogate systemic imbalances.

From Salon Aug. 14, 2026

She also made Hall's family members "interested persons", meaning they would be able to interrogate evidence or witnesses at a future inquest.

From BBC Jun. 16, 2026

Analysts told AFP that US government officials and lawmakers are likely to interrogate Cheng on the KMT's position on China and its decision to slash the government's special defence budget.

From Barron's Jun. 1, 2026

Only one explanation: He’s been sent by the General to interrogate me.

From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King

In one scene she attends a party with John Maynard Keynes, and she interrogates the economist much more avidly than she does the giant blue angel who materializes in Geoffrey’s bedroom.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 5, 2026

Barrie’s “Peter Pan,” which interrogates the idea of holding onto youthful innocence.

From Salon Jul. 17, 2025

Over time, Cunk has grown more antagonistic toward the talking heads she interrogates, and more willing to counter their arguments with dubious anecdotal evidence.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 2, 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

Cypriano thus interrogates, pointing to some scattered boulders lying about the cave—large blocks that have broken off from its roof, and fallen upon the floor.

From Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco by F.C. Tilney

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

He said they drove him to an empty field and interrogated him before his friends published the alleged attackers' names on social media, at which point the men dropped him on a nearby street.

From Barron's May 21, 2026

Nothing of this nature was found, but Katya was nevertheless interrogated by law enforcement.

From BBC May 15, 2026

Before the FBI interrogated him, they asked him to sign a piece of paper.

From Slate Apr. 19, 2026

The tapes that Tate, Benson, and Ikner had made when they interrogated Myers were pretty dramatic.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

But Trump’s latest posts appear less interested in interrogating Washington than in imagining him as a collaborator — writing, riding and offering design tips to his 21st-century successor.

From Salon Aug. 16, 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

I wish the show’s wall text and labels weren’t so overloaded with jargon, verbs like navigating, negotiating, interrogating, decentering, decontextualizing, disrupting and destabilizing.

From The Wall Street Journal May 9, 2026

It’s also not like superhero comic books haven’t had storylines about marginalized communities or interrogating people in power.

From Los Angeles Times May 6, 2026

Tía Inés hands over the platter and arches her brow the way she does when she’s interrogating the twins.

From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina




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