as in investigations
a systematic search for the truth or facts about something
there's no need to conduct an inquisition about so trivial a matter
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inquisitions
Noun
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However, investigations into the cause are ongoing.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
7 Sep. 2025 -
At the very least, the government can mire the university in many costly and time-consuming investigations.—
Jeannie Suk Gersen,
New Yorker,
6 Sep. 2025
Noun
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In its post announcing the upcoming roll out of parental controls, OpenAI also shared plans to route sensitive inquiries to a model of their chatbot that spends a longer time reasoning and looking through context before responding to prompts.—
Solcyré Burga,
Time,
3 Sep. 2025
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This recognition leads to inbound connection requests, profile views, and eventually, inquiries.—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Further examinations revealed that the golden retriever TNNI3 mutation is autosomal recessive.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
3 Sep. 2025
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Kravitz and Butler’s choreographed intimacy and onscreen chemistry is thunderous, and the cinematographer, Matthew Libatique, gives the audience closer examinations into their rocky relationship.—
Malik Peay,
Essence,
27 Aug. 2025
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Their explorations will include speaking with conservationists, tracking wolverines in the rugged North American backcountry, examining Australia’s Great Barrier Reef and more.—
Giana Levy,
Variety,
4 Sep. 2025
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American describes the broader arc as threefold—Butler’s relationship to California’s geography; her matrilineal inheritance; and finally, her visions of space travel as counterpoints to today’s privatized explorations.—
Okla Jones,
Essence,
2 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Furthermore, numerous studies have shown how different aspects of society such as social interactions, the environment, access to healthcare and the presence and absence of various economic resources can affect the spread of infectious diseases.—
Bruce Y. Lee,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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Stern is perhaps best known for being the principal investigator of NASA's New Horizons mission, which was the first to fly by Pluto in 2015 before venturing on to do studies of other small bodies in the Kuiper Belt.—
Elizabeth Howell,
Space.com,
9 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Since February, most staffers have been under a stop-work order that has effectively stalled the bulk of its probes — including ones into debanking.—
Jake Pearson,
ProPublica,
9 Sep. 2025
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Over the past decade, neuroscience took a giant leap forward with the development of digital neural probes called Neuropixels, which can monitor thousands of neurons at once.—
Mindy Weisberger,
CNN Money,
9 Sep. 2025
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“Inquisitions.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inquisitions. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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