investigate

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The research team set out to systematically map these ridges across the lunar maria and investigate their role in recent tectonic activity.

From Science Daily

Clark and the union had engaged separate attorneys as federal authorities investigated alleged financial improprieties within the MLBPA, an affiliated licensing company and an affiliated youth sports venture.

From Los Angeles Times

In research published in Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, MIT geobiologists investigated the origins of a crucial enzyme that allows organisms to consume oxygen.

From Science Daily

The new interim president will be Peru's eighth head of state in 10 years, after the Latin American country burned through a string of leaders who were impeached or investigated for wrongdoing.

From Barron's

Also present at one of the meetings was another Chinese citizen who was under house arrest while being investigated for alleged links to an illegal timber network.

From BBC