interrogator
noun
, -ˈte-rə-\
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Mistakes were made by the interrogators, and by the original people who looked at Mateen, and the prosecution. — Patricia Mazzei, New York Times, "Noor Salman Acquitted in Pulse Nightclub Shooting," 30 Mar. 2018 Less than a month later, McCain pushed through an amendment to the 2006 Defense Authorization Bill that restricted US military interrogators to only using methods listed in the US Army Field Manual on Intelligence Interrogation. — Jennifer Williams, Vox, "Sen. John McCain’s complicated moral legacy on torture," 26 Aug. 2018 Cruz did not respond to his interrogators at Fiola, except to offer pleasantries wildly out of sync with the shouts and screams around him. — Avi Selk, The Seattle Times, "Sen. Ted Cruz and wife shouted out of D.C. restaurant over his support for Kavanaugh," 25 Sep. 2018 The chief reason to watch is its star, Radhika Apte, who shone in Netflix's other major Hindi-language series Sacred Games, and who plays an interrogator in a military prison here. — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, "Which of These New TV International Thrillers Should You Binge?," 30 Aug. 2018 But Dassey's lawyers say interrogators took advantage of his youth and mental limitations, fed him facts and extracted a confession through psychologically coercive tactics. — Jessica Gresko, chicagotribune.com, "Teen in 'Making a Murderer' asks Supreme Court to take his case," 20 June 2018 Steven Kleinman, a longtime interrogator with lengthy experience during the first Gulf War, isn’t sure. — Deb Riechmann, BostonGlobe.com, "Senators want CIA to lift veil on nominee’s black site past," 16 Mar. 2018 The scene was a county jail and the interrogators were inmates in prison garb — soft cotton scrubs, some blue, some brown, some orange, depending on the status of their cases. — New York Times, "Inmates Question Prospective Prosecutors in Jailhouse Campaign Debate," 26 June 2018 Rodriguez and Haspel had argued internally that the videotapes showed the faces of the interrogators and if made public could open them up to reprisals. — Glenn Kessler, Washington Post, "CIA director nominee Haspel and the destruction of interrogation tapes: Contradictions and questions," 11 May 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'interrogator.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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