inspected

past tense of inspect

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of inspected The Fire Department inspected 48 homes, 38 of which were yellow-tagged and 10 were green-tagged, Division Chief Kyle Kramer said. — Claire Wang, Oc Register, 7 Nov. 2026 The facility was reportedly inspected by local police as part of an investigative operation. — Stefania Conrieri, Vanity Fair, 6 Nov. 2026 Confirmed flights threatened Thursday Aer Lingus EI402 from Dublin to Rome — received bomb threat over France, made emergency landing at air base and inspected by bomb squad, according to airline and French officials. — Matteo Moschella, NBC news, 5 Nov. 2026 Both are open-source projects whose code has been inspected, tested, and hardened by developers and security researchers for years. — Wen Shao, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2026 In one manufacturing application documented by our engineering team, cylinder heads were inspected before washing. — Rajesh Iyengar, Forbes.com, 5 Nov. 2026 Trump lost big, inspected the wreckage, and claimed the problem was lousy candidates. — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2026 That didn’t happen until the next day, when DNR fisheries staff weighed and inspected the fish. — Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 4 Nov. 2026 Regulators inspected his clinic less than two weeks after the story ran on June 7. — Christy Gutowski, Chicago Tribune, 29 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inspected
Verb
  • The little prior research on any sort of relationship between voting in the United States and living longer largely examined how health status might predict later voting behaviors, Handy said.
    — Kristen Rogers, CNN Money, 2 Nov. 2026
  • After more than two decades in space, the observatory examined over 2,000 GRBs and more than 1,400 supernovae.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 2 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • Only one, when scanned by the animal control officers, had a microchip.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2026
  • Voters in Westchester County, New York, reported experiencing problems getting their paper ballots scanned at polling sites.
    — Justin Papp,Caleigh Keating,Garrett Downs,Kevin Breuninger,Dan Mangan, CNBC, 3 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • Reporters also reviewed dozens of private Facebook group posts, WhatsApp messages, and other communications among women seeking MRT, as well as business filings, clinic licenses, and client contracts.
    — Megan Molteni, STAT, 2 Nov. 2026
  • Behind the scenes, Muse uses a collection of digital notes and instructions to guide its personality, actions and memory, all of which can be reviewed, edited and deleted.
    — Marty Swant, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Last month, another UMBC poll showed 51% of those surveyed planned to vote for Moore, while 24% planned to vote for Cox.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 3 Nov. 2026
  • Yet workers surveyed by the NY Fed describe endless Zoom calls and Slacks, and little actual face time.
    — Eric Rosenbaum, CNBC, 2 Nov. 2026

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“Inspected.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inspected. Accessed 10 Nov. 2026.

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