investigate
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"I can't go into the detail of what was in that brief but suffice it to say that we had to investigate how those processes had been executed," she said.
From BBC • May 6, 2026
"We will do everything in our power to investigate it quickly and fully," he said.
From Barron's • May 4, 2026
To investigate these questions, Kawabata and colleagues studied how 50 species of true crabs move.
From Science Daily • May 2, 2026
But Mejia said that with just five investigators, it’s “next to impossible” to investigate all of the 700 waste, fraud and abuse claims his office receives each year.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026
Red Corn did not know more than these fragmentary details relayed to her by relatives, and she hoped that I could investigate her grandfather’s death.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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