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catechisms

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plural of catechism

as in exams

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And this was despite the fact Jaques was simultaneously juggling being writer, director and star, his first year of high school exams and working on a market stall in Clapham selling donuts, pizza and sausage rolls.

— Alex Ritman, Variety, 18 Sep. 2026
Faculty opposed to the exams say the tests track race and wealth, do not measure California academic standards, and would shrink the applicant pool.

— Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of exams

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The financial incentives to win FDA approval also became far more powerful after Congress approved Medicare to cover multi-cancer detection tests that are greenlighted by the agency.

— Yuki Noguchi, NPR, 23 Sep. 2026
What this process gave me was a very expensive (about $1,000) education in how to evaluate risk at a time when there are always new tests and options to assess it.

— Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of tests

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Noreus then submitted fraudulent transcripts to state nursing boards so students could take licensing examinations and obtain nursing licenses, according to prosecutors.

— Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 16 Sep. 2026
After undergoing examinations for her physical safety, the young woman was arrested on accusations of perpetrating crime against public health, per El Mundo.

— Samira Asma-Sadeque, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of examinations

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To determine whether there was a reason to look further, researchers searched digital archives for existing investigations, finding 20 studies that qualified as suitable.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 24 Sep. 2026
Several individuals have been charged and drugs and a number of firearms were recovered this week in separate investigations, according to the Aurora Police Department.

— Aurora Beacon-News, Chicago Tribune, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of investigations

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Hur judiciously constructs scene after scene that pulls and pushes the various probes closer to and further from the mysterious truth, which feels at once obscured and hidden in plain sight.

— Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 20 Sep. 2026
Even with Oracle founder Larry Ellison the primary backer of his son’s ParaBros dreams, the even older Ellison’s net worth, which has been declining of late, may not be able to handle the strain of months and months of such probes.

— Dominic Patten, Deadline, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of probes

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Melanie Challenger Melanie Challenger writes, researches, and broadcasts on the history of ideas, the history and philosophy of science, and the relationship between humans and the living world.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 Aug. 2026
Decades after researches first sequenced the human genome, scientists throughout the world are still working to understand it.

— Gary Skuse, The Conversation, 28 Apr. 2026

Definition of researches

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The scandal would be the center of congressional inquiries and investigations.

— Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2026
The goal is to align these factors with your initial marketing strategy so your practice attracts the right patients at the right volume, rather than simply generating more inquiries.

— Ajay Prasad, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2026

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