- past tense form of investigate.
- past participle of investigate.
investigated
Example Sentences
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AFP previously investigated a multilingual trend of videos stealing seniors’ identities to bait users into sympathetic purchases of slippers and dog collars.
From Barron's • Jun. 18, 2026
He asked the court to rule in the case of a Pakistani native who was investigated by the FBI for his suspected ties to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 18, 2026
David Koepp, who wrote the screenplay based on an original story by Spielberg, referenced real-life congressional testimony and reports from Project Blue Book, an Air Force program which investigated UFOs that was disbanded in 1969.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 18, 2026
The team then investigated why the drug was having this effect.
From Science Daily • Jun. 17, 2026
The cops investigated, but neither Don Little nor anyone else ever said a word about what everyone assumed to be true.
From "Boy21" by Matthew Quick
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