scrutiny

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Part of the reason for this shift, people in the industry say, is the public backlash against private equity’s role in medicine, and recent government scrutiny of it.

From The Wall Street Journal

The scrutiny was like being bitten: it made Christopher feel something had got into his skin.

From Literature

Jess Asato, another Labour critic of the legislation, said "a bill like this with such profound life-and-death impacts... must not be forced through without the scrutiny it deserves".

From BBC

As important, Mr. Newman argues, is what happens once those ideas surface: submitting them to the scrutiny of others, whose feedback often sharpens what solitary effort cannot.

From The Wall Street Journal

Despite scrutiny at home, improving relations with the world's second-largest economy has been a priority for the British prime minister.

From BBC