under scrutiny
idiom
formal
: being carefully examined especially in a critical way
Their behavior is under scrutiny again.
Examples of under scrutiny in a Sentence
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Trump's $175 million appeal bond under scrutiny While the hush money trial is underway Monday morning, Judge Arthur Engoron will be hearing arguments in a courthouse next door over whether Trump's $175 million appeal bond passes muster in his New York civil fraud case.
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Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 22 Apr. 2024
Black women’s bodies in particular have been under scrutiny and painful subjections for centuries not limited to conversations on hypersexualization.
—Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 16 Apr. 2024
Boeing has been under scrutiny since a door plug blew out of an Alaska Airlines plane in January, forcing an emergency landing.
—Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2024
It’s also lingered on disparities between the men’s and women’s games that have been under scrutiny since attention was drawn in 2021 to the vastly different weight rooms set up for the NCAA Tournament.
—Anne M. Peterson and Doug Feinberg, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Apr. 2024
Zuckerberg had already been under scrutiny after Republican lawmakers accused him of censoring conservative Facebook pages.
—Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2024
An uncomfortable fact was that most of the concerned parents were white and the two counsellors under scrutiny were not: one of them, Hector Santos, is Latino, and the other, Delinda Dykes, is Black.
—Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2024
Also under scrutiny are the massive amounts of aid China has given its carmakers, allegedly breaking international trade law.
—Katharina Buchholz, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
One of multiple Trump attorneys under scrutiny Eastman is one of several attorneys who advanced the Trump campaign's 2020 election efforts and who have since faced disciplinary action from legal authorities, including Rudy Giuliani, Jeffrey Clark, Jenna Ellis and Sidney Powell.
—Tom Dreisbach, NPR, 27 Mar. 2024
Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 22 Apr. 2024
Black women’s bodies in particular have been under scrutiny and painful subjections for centuries not limited to conversations on hypersexualization.
—Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 16 Apr. 2024
Boeing has been under scrutiny since a door plug blew out of an Alaska Airlines plane in January, forcing an emergency landing.
—Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2024
It’s also lingered on disparities between the men’s and women’s games that have been under scrutiny since attention was drawn in 2021 to the vastly different weight rooms set up for the NCAA Tournament.
—Anne M. Peterson and Doug Feinberg, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Apr. 2024
Zuckerberg had already been under scrutiny after Republican lawmakers accused him of censoring conservative Facebook pages.
—Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2024
An uncomfortable fact was that most of the concerned parents were white and the two counsellors under scrutiny were not: one of them, Hector Santos, is Latino, and the other, Delinda Dykes, is Black.
—Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2024
Also under scrutiny are the massive amounts of aid China has given its carmakers, allegedly breaking international trade law.
—Katharina Buchholz, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
One of multiple Trump attorneys under scrutiny Eastman is one of several attorneys who advanced the Trump campaign's 2020 election efforts and who have since faced disciplinary action from legal authorities, including Rudy Giuliani, Jeffrey Clark, Jenna Ellis and Sidney Powell.
—Tom Dreisbach, NPR, 27 Mar. 2024
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“Under scrutiny.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/under%20scrutiny. Accessed 26 Apr. 2024.
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