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as in asked
to put a question or questions to
interrogated him about where he'd gone the night before
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as in examined
to put a series of questions to
police interrogated the murder suspect for hours on end
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Recent Examples of interrogated
Jorge Antonio Rodríguez died that same year after being interrogated by intelligence agents.
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Robbie Griffiths, NPR, 4 Jan. 2026
Whiteness is interrogated and Blackness is structural.
—Skylar Mitchell, Essence, 18 Dec. 2025
The 57-year-old executive was interrogated on a variety of points.
—Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 5 Dec. 2025
Frantz Fanon and Edward Said both interrogated the Tarzan stories as colonial indoctrination.
—Literary Hub, 17 Nov. 2025
Several of these children appeared in the movie—a formally playful collision of fiction and documentary in which Laxe, also making an appearance, slyly interrogated his European outsider-artist role.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2025
There is so much to be interrogated here.
—Olivia Crandall, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2025
At the police station, Tip Hunter interrogated Williams and Thomas Davis for hours about NAACP activity before releasing Thomas Davis, who left town.
—Equal Justice Initiative, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
Violent images of prisoners being interrogated at Abu Ghraib prison complex eventually came out, damaging the United States’ standing on the world stage and sparking a Senate Intelligence Committee report on the CIA’s interrogation program.
—Ellen Mitchell, The Hill, 5 Nov. 2025
Robbie Griffiths, NPR, 4 Jan. 2026
Whiteness is interrogated and Blackness is structural.
—Skylar Mitchell, Essence, 18 Dec. 2025
The 57-year-old executive was interrogated on a variety of points.
—Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 5 Dec. 2025
Frantz Fanon and Edward Said both interrogated the Tarzan stories as colonial indoctrination.
—Literary Hub, 17 Nov. 2025
Several of these children appeared in the movie—a formally playful collision of fiction and documentary in which Laxe, also making an appearance, slyly interrogated his European outsider-artist role.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2025
There is so much to be interrogated here.
—Olivia Crandall, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2025
At the police station, Tip Hunter interrogated Williams and Thomas Davis for hours about NAACP activity before releasing Thomas Davis, who left town.
—Equal Justice Initiative, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
Violent images of prisoners being interrogated at Abu Ghraib prison complex eventually came out, damaging the United States’ standing on the world stage and sparking a Senate Intelligence Committee report on the CIA’s interrogation program.
—Ellen Mitchell, The Hill, 5 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for interrogated
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During the auditions, wannabe actors are asked to improvise scenes including being a cat, being trapped in a room, and being propositioned by a famous director.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
7 Nov. 2025
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While the co-stars didn’t address the bullying report on the red carpet, Stranger Things creators Ross and Matt Duffer and director Shawn Levy were each asked about its veracity.—
Daniel Kreps,
Rolling Stone,
7 Nov. 2025
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To understand what makes the mRNA shots special, the researchers examined blood and tissue samples and found that the COVID shots appeared to activate the innate immune system — a fundamental, early-warning defense mechanism that alerts other parts of the immune system to prepare for an attack.—
Lisa Jarvis,
Twin Cities,
8 Nov. 2025
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Their study shows that while some planets are destroyed during the early post-main sequence phase, Earth is likely safer than the close-in giant planets examined.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Nov. 2025
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When the deputy questioned Rustrian, the scuffle began, the source told CBS.—
Devoun Cetoute,
Miami Herald,
8 Nov. 2025
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Stokes recently came under fire after several viral social media posts questioned her legal qualifications and reported connection to Second Chance Services, a mental health and addiction clinic in Charlotte.—
Julia Bonavita,
FOXNews.com,
8 Nov. 2025
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The attorney general used the same tactic when Durbin quizzed her about a July memo from her department announcing no new information had been found in its Epstein files.—
Emily Goodin,
Miami Herald,
7 Oct. 2025
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The exec was later quizzed why HBO Max Spain had not yet leaned into any of its more successful docs or doc series and expanded them.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
30 Sep. 2025
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“Interrogated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/interrogated. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.
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