scrutiny
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The scope of these inquiries makes independent scrutiny essential.
From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026
Millions of voters have also been flagged for additional scrutiny after the ECI used automated systems to detect what they described as "logical discrepancies", including mismatched names and inconsistencies in family details.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
Her legal credentials have come under scrutiny after she didn’t appear in searches for licensed attorneys in California, Texas or Washington, D.C., under her married or maiden name.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
His experience as an immigrant living in a Western country felt like he was under constant scrutiny and surveillance, to the point that it affected his personality and his stand-up.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026
He tried quickly to cover his red, brimming eyes from her scrutiny.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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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
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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
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Have you really measured the world by scrutinies, or through alembics and crucibles?
From The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas père
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
“I thank you, madam,” said “Buffalo” Westabrook, bending on her one of his piercing scrutinies.
From Maida's Little Shop by Inez Haynes Gillmore
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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