inspecting

verb

present participle of inspect
as in examining
to look over closely (as for judging quality or condition) inspected the collie before the dog show

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Recent Examples of inspecting The following day Vaccarello is carefully inspecting a room at a nondescript building on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. — José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 6 July 2026 Scientists at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in the US have developed non-invasive methods for inspecting nuclear power plants. — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 2 July 2026 Rux used to work as a mechanical engineer inspecting roads for cracks that result from use and weathering. — Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 29 June 2026 For that reason, although inspecting the stitching is key, that alone won't determine whether a quilt is old or valuable. — Maria Sabella, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 June 2026 Bud Carpenter walked up to join Ed and me in inspecting the prize. — Marc Terziev, Outdoor Life, 25 June 2026 County officials also maintained that employees inspecting the property in June 2022 encountered what appeared to be an agricultural storage building that the owner had represented would store farm equipment, not explosives. — Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 23 June 2026 The elaborate safety check included tightening the arms, checking the GPS system and parachute, swapping the battery, and, yes, inspecting the cargo. — Anne Kadet, Curbed, 19 June 2026 Finally, be vigilant when inspecting plants before purchase. — Emily Hayes, Martha Stewart, 16 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inspecting
  1. examining
  2. reviewing
  3. scanning
  4. surveying
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  • So traders looking to get an edge began closely examining Ronaldo’s long, storied career for evidence of crying.
    — Jon Sarlin, CNN Money, 11 July 2026
  • This premise, though intuitive, rests on an assumption worth examining, which is that a device only competes for the mind’s resources when it is actively being used.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
Definition of examining
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  • The new products included plugins capable of reviewing contracts and carrying out legal workflows that would once have required considerable human time.
    — Dan Fitzpatrick, Forbes.com, 11 July 2026
  • An unpublished version of a new 17-page rule viewable in the Federal Register includes one sentence about Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security favorably reviewing applications involving MGX semiconductors and servers bound for the UAE.
    — Luke Fountain, CNBC, 10 July 2026
Definition of reviewing
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  • While scanning the roadside along I-80 offers a quick, anecdotal glimpse of the winter ahead, local districts maintain contact with Reclamation to track how much runoff will actually make its way to Folsom Lake.
    — Corey Schmidt July 10, Sacbee.com, 10 July 2026
  • Defender normally places hard limits on how big a file can be written to disk when scanning and quarantining a machine.
    — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 9 July 2026
Definition of scanning
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  • New research from Omdia, commissioned by Apica and surveying 300 enterprise IT decision-makers, found that 59% of enterprises have already terminated or delayed an agentic AI deployment because observability costs have become unmanageable.
    — Andi Mann, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
  • The Long Goodbye is full of glamorous hippies, with the actor Sterling Hayden (a veteran of the earlier noir era) surveying his domain on the beach in Malibu.
    — Carolyn Kellogg, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026
Definition of surveying

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