How to Use reinvestigate in a Sentence

reinvestigate

verb
  • In 2006, Dark set up a new project to reinvestigate the site and examine the earlier research.
    James Rogers, Fox News, 25 Nov. 2020
  • The new bishop of Como asked for permission from Becciu, a close lieutenant of Francis’s at the time, to reinvestigate the case.
    Washington Post, 12 July 2021
  • But now Henniman is having doubts, hiring Russ to reinvestigate the case now that Musa is dying of cancer.
    Oline H. Cogdill, sun-sentinel.com, 30 Nov. 2021
  • In an unusual move, Connick agreed to work with Thibodeaux’s team to reinvestigate.
    Mark Vancleave, Star Tribune, 2 Aug. 2015
  • Hayes was discovered as a suspect after cold case detectives began to reinvestigate the case in March.
    Tandra Smith | Tsmith@al.com, al, 4 May 2021
  • Lagrange and her team have already called for researchers to reinvestigate the dynamics of the Beta Pictoris system in light of this recent discovery.
    Erica Naone, Discover Magazine, 20 Aug. 2019
  • Jackson and a team of legal experts reinvestigate many of the allegations against Shelton.
    CBS News, 7 May 2022
  • Those cases were among the 100 such cases that Boston police reinvestigated over the past few years through a federal grant to revisit old DNA samples with current improved technology.
    Sean Cotter, BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2023
  • Police received new information over the weekend that caused the department to reinvestigate the circumstances of Friday’s incident, Messmer said.
    Anchorage Daily News, 1 Jan. 2023
  • NCRAs and creditors typically have up to 30 days upon receipt of a dispute letter to investigate or reinvestigate a consumer’s disputes.
    Adam Singer, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2023
  • From electrifying true-crime documentaries that provoke enough public interest to reinvestigate relic cases to award-winning horror stories based on truth, audiences cannot get enough of true-crime.
    Deanna Janes, Harper's BAZAAR, 24 July 2023
  • But there’s little evidence of this dissatisfaction in the news archives predating Toomin’s 2019 decision to appoint special prosecutor Dan Webb to reinvestigate the Smollett case.
    Eric Zorn, chicagotribune.com, 30 Oct. 2020
  • Appeal after appeal failed, but Syed’s break came when city prosecutors began reinvestigating his case alongside his defense attorney.
    Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Trump has also demanded the Justice Department reinvestigate Babbitt’s death, though the officer who shot her was cleared of any wrongdoing by two prior federal investigations.
    Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Mar. 2022
  • The events have been examined and re-examined, investigated and reinvestigated.
    John Anderson, WSJ, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Democratic President Joe Biden has directed the federal government to reinvestigate the disease’s origins.
    Bryn Stole, baltimoresun.com, 8 June 2021
  • In recent years, dedicated units — called conviction integrity units — within a prosecutor’s office that reinvestigate old cases have appeared nationwide.
    Celina Tebor, USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2022
  • All three men were exonerated after conviction review units in local prosecutors' offices reinvestigated their cases.
    N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2023

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