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scrutiny

[skroot-n-ee] / ˈskrut n i /


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As arrests soared, Taylor worked to place the district attorney’s decisions under unprecedented scrutiny, saying he wanted to ensure that the prosecution of task force cases was as aggressive as the task force itself.

From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026

AI financing has been harder and more expensive to come by as the capital-spending boom comes under more scrutiny.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

All eyes are now on evidence of monetization, while increased spending among tech giants is falling under more scrutiny.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026

It has been facing immense public scrutiny as it has struggled to deal with AI models breaking out of contained spaces and sometimes skirting human instructions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

He could barely look at her, afraid that on close scrutiny she might dissolve into sainthood and be blown like holy pollen into the sky.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

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

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

It is somewhat remarkable that, notwithstanding his long and repeated scrutinies of this planet, the eighth satellite, Hyperion, and the crape ring should have escaped him.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various

The Pope, who was appealed to, expressed his regret, but declined to put any pressure on the reluctant abbot: two more scrutinies followed, and finally Abbot von Stotzingen, of Maria-laach, was elected by seventy-five votes.

From A New Medley of Memories by David Hunter-Blair

There was no place permanently established for the purpose, but removable wooden cells were installed in the various apartments of the palace, grouped around the Sistine chapel, in which the scrutinies took place.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" by Various


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