investigatory

Example Sentences

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Paula works as a fact-checker at a New York City newsmagazine, a job chosen, I imagine, to account for her investigatory chops, though not her tendency to put herself in dangerous situations.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026

“The government doesn’t usually outsource its investigatory processes to external people,” he said, referring to Loomer and others.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

“I certainly think it is very clear that there are a number of investigatory leads because it is abundantly clear that there are a number of people who committed devastating harm to survivors,” Hersh said.

From Salon • Feb. 10, 2026

There are good reasons of privacy and unfair guilt by association not to dump hundreds of thousands of pages of raw FBI investigatory files into the public arena.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025

The investigatory expedition to the ominous red spot of the giant of the solar system was on.

From The Red Hell of Jupiter by Ernst, Paul