1
as in inspection
a close look at or over someone or something in order to judge condition
his performance on the football field is seemingly unaffected by the media's intense scrutiny of his tumultuous personal life
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2
as in gaze
a fixed intent look
began to squirm under the penetrating scrutiny of the judge
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Recent Examples of scrutiny
Separately, recent disclosures show Steyer has smaller investments of less than $1 million in Brookfield Corporation, an asset management company whose vast holdings include mobile home parks that have drawn scrutiny from private equity watchdogs.
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Ben Paviour, Sacbee.com, 27 May 2026
The bloc is reportedly ramping up its scrutiny of China's trade practices.
—Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 27 May 2026
Ex ante testing and certification should serve as a baseline — not a substitute for ongoing scrutiny.
—Ion Stoica, Fortune, 27 May 2026
The Justice Department has also recently widened its civil rights scrutiny of the state’s medical schools beyond UCLA.
—Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2026
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Ben Paviour, Sacbee.com, 27 May 2026
The bloc is reportedly ramping up its scrutiny of China's trade practices.
—Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 27 May 2026
Ex ante testing and certification should serve as a baseline — not a substitute for ongoing scrutiny.
—Ion Stoica, Fortune, 27 May 2026
The Justice Department has also recently widened its civil rights scrutiny of the state’s medical schools beyond UCLA.
—Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scrutiny
Noun
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That disaster inspired a new state law requiring more inspections and registrations of aboveground storage tanks.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
27 May 2026
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Following an inspection, the hardware was fully intact, the company noted in a social media post.—
Chris Young,
Interesting Engineering,
27 May 2026
Noun
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Across the half mile that separated us, the stern gaze of the villagers was an impediment to our meeting.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 May 2026
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Rather than attempting to reckon with Rwanda’s recent history from the outside in, its fevered gaze on this riven and traumatized community comes from the inside out.—
Jessica Kiang,
Variety,
26 May 2026
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Rather than prompting examination of the systems in which those outcomes occur, a common counterargument is that attention to diversity risks lowering standards or excusing poor performance.—
Vanessa Grubbs,
STAT,
1 June 2026
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Levinson and director of photography Marcell Rév mostly left the soundstages that defined the first two seasons for an expansive, on-location examination of Southern California, from Lancaster to Long Beach.—
David Canfield,
HollywoodReporter,
1 June 2026
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Surrounded by, among others, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and several family members, Trump stares bluntly as Swanson and Landwehr go at it.—
Sean Gregory,
Time,
26 May 2026
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Emery’s thousand-yard stare at the full-time whistle captured the mood of the summer.—
Jacob Tanswell,
New York Times,
21 May 2026
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The system, known as CISS, is used by the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance to help process tax returns, flag returns for audit, and support collections work.—
Kelly Phillips Erb,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2026
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The bear’s maker, FoloToy, initially stopped Kumma sales after the study was published to conduct a safety audit and to strengthen child-safety safeguards, the company said in a statement at the time.—
Noelle Harff,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 May 2026
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In another Amsterdam photo, a pair of identical world globes, recalling Ghirri’s passion for cartography and atlases, rest on matching supports to conjure that oldest of surrealist tropes, a pair of staring eyes.—
James Quandt,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
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Just outside the gates is One Tree Hill, a breezy bar and bird’s-eye Whitsundays viewpoint.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 June 2026
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About three-fourths of EU companies in China said their production facilities in the country were more efficient than operations elsewhere, the chamber's survey found.—
Evelyn Cheng,
CNBC,
27 May 2026
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These tools can also adapt surveys across languages.—
Ambuj Tewari,
The Conversation,
27 May 2026
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“Scrutiny.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scrutiny. Accessed 2 Jun. 2026.
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