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scrutiny

[skroot-n-ee] / ˈskrut n i /


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It warned investors that the blacklist "may subject us to increased scrutiny and potential further government actions".

From Barron's Jul. 30, 2026

But police camera footage, procedural scrutiny and extensive interviews do make it an enigmatic true-crime thriller.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 29, 2026

"Even relatively small exporters and shipments are subject to thorough review and scrutiny on both sides of the globe, and any diverted products would have no service, support, or updates."

From Barron's Jul. 28, 2026

A lack of leadership on the pitch has also come under scrutiny, with James Tavernier regularly the fall guy.

From BBC Jul. 28, 2026

And if there was one thing Dell Duke understood, it was that he didn't do well under scrutiny.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan

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

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

Out of their heartbreaking scrutinies there have come certain determinations which are being adopted rapidly wherever the social sense is aroused.

From The Business of Being a Woman by Tarbell, Ida M.

They were to watch over each other's lives, and hold annual scrutinies into conduct.

From Oxford and Her Colleges by Smith, Goldwin




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