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investigation

[in-ves-ti-gey-shuhn] / ɪnˌvɛs tɪˈgeɪ ʃən /


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The Australian government is now “undertaking a comprehensive forensic investigation into the incident,” a Services Australia spokeswoman said Friday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

May 2019: City criticise the investigation and launch an appeal process.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

The motive and circumstances still are under investigation, and the identities of the dead haven’t been publicly released.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Pangram CEO and co-founder Max Spero stressed to the American outlet The Atlantic that the tool should not be the ultimate arbiter, but rather a starting point for a more in-depth investigation.

From Barron's ● Sep. 25, 2026

The first task of the investigation was both incredibly easy and incredibly hard: the police had to make sure the Mona Lisa was no longer in the Louvre.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day

It has also heard concerns about the secrecy under which the SAS operated and that previous investigations into the allegations were ended prematurely.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

“Our investigations unit is looking into it as we speak.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

It took investigations, trials, discovery, all of the tools of modern litigation, to get documents, interview witnesses, to do the fact-building that exposed just how bad the industry had been behaving.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

Polymarket laid the groundwork for an American app and negotiated with regulators to end the investigations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

But time pressures inevitably curtail my literary investigations.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich




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