interrogation

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Recent Examples of interrogation During the trial this summer, Dominguez questioned investigators about that list and his client's interrogation. Jade Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 25 Nov. 2024 John and Patsy gave DNA samples in 1996 but refused to come to police headquarters for an official interrogation. Alessa Dominguez, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2024 Lazzarini said, adding that the soldiers asked her for access to all the data in her computer, brought her in for interrogation for a few hours, and handcuffed her to a post. Pauline Lockwood, CNN, 18 Nov. 2024 Later this week, the five people charged in his death will face interrogations by the city’s justice department during multiple hearings. Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 16 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for interrogation 
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Noun
  • Importantly, however, is the nature of the questioning.
    Kimberly A. Whitler, Forbes, 15 Dec. 2024
  • Reid said the questioning would have been limited to four hours.
    Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 14 Dec. 2024
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  • An inquiry from Newsweek to the senators about what specific incidents, reports and/or complaints spurred the letter earlier this year received no response.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 29 Dec. 2024
  • The 14 corrections employees accused of being involved in the attack were placed on administrative leave around the time the death was disclosed amid inquiries by the department’s Office of Special Investigations, the state attorney general and the State Police.
    Ed Shanahan, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2024
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  • Movies At Telluride, ‘Conclave’ pleases, even if other Oscar hopefuls aren’t ready for prime time Sept. 1, 2024 Early on, Callas parried these inquisitions with humor.
    Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2024
  • Lost during last week’s inquisition into the Hail Mary and botched fullback dive was a careful examination of more macro issues the Bears are dealing with.
    Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 4 Nov. 2024
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  • The UCs were originally intended to be centers of research that offered advanced education to the top 12.5% of the state’s graduating seniors; the CSUs were to offer broader learning to the top 33.3%.
    Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2024
  • The research is described in a paper that was recently published in the journal Science Robotics.
    Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 23 Dec. 2024
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  • The feds declined to charge Gaetz, but his colleagues in Congress launched an ethics probe into the same allegations.
    Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Stockholm has sent a formal request to China, asking that Beijing cooperate with its probe.
    John Feng, Newsweek, 18 Dec. 2024
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  • If Kessler syndrome becomes severe enough, the phenomenon could potentially limit space exploration activities to some extent by making the launch and safe navigation of spacecraft through the debris field challenging.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 28 Dec. 2024
  • The agency uses the island to test vehicles and other technology related to planetary exploration.
    Kate S. Petersen, USA TODAY, 27 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • But the Vaziri Law analysis actually ranks Hawaii, which consistently scores low marks for economic freedom, as the number one worst state to work.
    Therese Boudreaux | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 29 Dec. 2024
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    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2024
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  • In 2017, Berklee musicologist Joe Bennett published a lighthearted study on commonalities in the music and lyrics of Christmas songs.
    Maura Johnston, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2024
  • The study was the first to track the problem of plumbing poverty over a 51-year period in the 50 largest U.S. cities.
    Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024

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“Interrogation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/interrogation. Accessed 6 Jan. 2025.

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