scrutiny
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The mounting deaths in Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data have drawn little scrutiny or response.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
Amid the scrutiny around the film, Williams admits joining the Practical Magic world was "a little bit overwhelming", but says the cast were "so supportive the whole time" and "welcomed us into the sisterhood".
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
The push overseas faces challenges, including intense competition and mounting regulatory scrutiny from U.S. politicians.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
As Anthropic advances toward what could become the market’s largest-ever initial public offering, it’s facing its share of scrutiny — even from those who’ve worked there.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026
Faces are a mercy; most identifications come after scrutiny of birthmarks, scraps of clothing, scars.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
In the late 1920s, his close analysis of a Shakespeare sonnet impressed Critic William Empson and led, indirectly, to the textual scrutinies of the New Criticism of the 1940s and '50s.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tellingly, Maritain notes what too many U.S. literary critics have ignored: that "American literature, in its most objective scrutinies, has been preoccupied with the beyond and the nameless which haunt our blood."
From Time Magazine Archive
The long probation called “abstinence” which led up to it is a survival of the primitive catechumenate with its scrutinies.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various
Thrice every year are held scrutinies into life and conduct, at which the hateful practice of secret denunciation is admitted, and the accused is forbidden to call for the name of his accuser.
From Oxford and Her Colleges by Goldwin Smith
He pushed his scrutinies into the heart of man; erected his tribunal in the region of his thoughts, and purified the waters at the fountain head.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph
Vocabulary lists containing scrutiny
"The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry
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"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 16–19
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The Westing Game
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