scrutiny
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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
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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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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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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.
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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The Westing Game
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