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catechizes

verb

present tense third-person singular of catechize

as in asks

to put a question or questions to her roommates catechized her about every detail of her first day at her new job

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as in interrogates

to put a series of questions to applicants are rigorously catechized by the seminary's rector regarding their motives for joining the priesthood

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Videos posted on Facebook and X show the street preachers speaking with police officers when one of the preachers asks if someone can be cited for misgendering a transgender person.

— Emily Holshouser, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 July 2026
Placing a special focus on R&B and new music discovery, Grice often weaves games into his variety show; a particularly viral bit asks guests to sing in a game of word association.

— Rachel Brodsky, Time, 14 July 2026

Definition of asks

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Barragán originally set out to find the man who scammed his mother by posing as a handsome American soldier, but now interrogates four of these young men, illuminating their psychological tactics, economic hardships and moral dilemmas.

— Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 30 May 2026
Advent has effectively digitized its own intellectual history — its wins, its misses, its assumptions — and turned it into a live analytical layer that interrogates every new deal that comes before the committee.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 25 May 2026

Definition of interrogates

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The show questions whether Munch’s public commissions celebrated workers or simply created an appealing image for industry.

— George Nelson, ARTnews.com, 16 July 2026
Peterson's former attorney, Mark Geragos, is among those featured in the documentary that questions Peterson's 2004 conviction.

— Erin Jensen, USA Today, 15 July 2026

Definition of questions

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While the human brain interprets motion as a fluid pattern, multimodal AI still examines videos by their individual frames.

— Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 16 July 2026
As Singh tries to prevent that from happening, his efforts are transposed with Gaitonde’s story, an epic tale that examines the nature of power amid the city’s religious and economic tensions.

— Culture Critic, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2026

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