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interrogator

[in-ter-uh-gey-ter] / ɪnˈtɛr əˌgeɪ tər /
NOUN
inquisitor
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With this method, a device called an interrogator shoots laser pulses down the length of a cable, and some of the light bounces back.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

"I made a mistake," he says, his voice trembling as an unseen interrogator presses him about the deaths of members of Iran's security forces.

From Barron's • Jan. 26, 2026

“I told my interrogator, ‘Look, you are questioning me now.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 15, 2025

The interrogator said Blunt was not "at ease" as he spoke, and every question "was followed by a long pause" while he "seemed to be debating with himself how to answer it".

From BBC • Jan. 13, 2025

Aldrich Ames met with his cutout again and again during the summer and fall of 1985—exactly the same period when Ames was the main CIA interrogator of Vitaly Yurchenko.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau




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