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scrutiny

[skroot-n-ee] / ˈskrut n i /


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But Netflix’s growing market power has attracted an unusual level of antitrust scrutiny.

From MarketWatch Jul. 14, 2026

The incident draws renewed scrutiny on DHS and ICE.

From BBC Jul. 14, 2026

He has also faced accusations of avoiding media scrutiny since he announced his intention to stand to replace Sir Keir.

From BBC Jul. 13, 2026

Meta has faced similar scrutiny across the Atlantic including a US trial this year which ruled Meta's and YouTube's platforms were harmfully addictive.

From Barron's Jul. 10, 2026

Technical academies are well represented, most of them from the for-profit sector that has been under scrutiny in recent years because students too often emerge with tens of thousands of dollars of debt—but not jobs.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove

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 place is large enough: there is room enough, and occupation enough, for men to have no need or excuse for small cavils or scrutinies.

From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Fuller, Margaret

It was, in fact, one of those momentary scrutinies which are at once complete and definite.

From Four Short Stories By Emile Zola by Zola, Émile

At the periodical scrutinies, when the conduct of all the members of the College is to be examined, accusations can be brought against him and duly investigated.

From Life in the Medieval University by Rait, Robert S.




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