as in questioning
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as in asking
to put a question or questions to
interrogated him about where he'd gone the night before
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as in examining
to put a series of questions to
police interrogated the murder suspect for hours on end
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Recent Examples of interrogating
Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 2 June 2026
Afterward, he was forced into a truck, where agents continued interrogating him after finding contacts linked to Argentine judicial agencies on his cellphone.
—ABC News, 22 May 2026
But those comparisons won’t do The White Lotus any favors, since Beef is more effective than that series’ second and third seasons in interrogating how exclusive locations sharpen class differences.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 4 May 2026
On its improbable third album since reuniting in 2014 after a 14-year hiatus, American Football isn’t interested in reclaiming youth so much as interrogating what came after it.
—Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 1 May 2026
Season 50 is honoring its past and legacy, actively interrogating it, dropping players from different eras into direct competition and letting the game itself reveal what has changed and what hasn’t.
—Clayton Davis, Variety, 14 Apr. 2026
Or gents or anyone else, though the Masters isn’t exactly a hotbed of bold, gender-interrogating fashion decisions.
—Aj Willingham, AJC.com, 6 Apr. 2026
The board will spend the next few months interrogating submissions from all three cities and speaking to their champions in more detail.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 30 Mar. 2026
Such works treat their characters as political beings with complex lives worth interrogating.
—Jake Pitre, The Atlantic, 7 Mar. 2026
Verb
The same instinct to accumulate without interrogating shows up everywhere.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 2 June 2026
Afterward, he was forced into a truck, where agents continued interrogating him after finding contacts linked to Argentine judicial agencies on his cellphone.
—ABC News, 22 May 2026
But those comparisons won’t do The White Lotus any favors, since Beef is more effective than that series’ second and third seasons in interrogating how exclusive locations sharpen class differences.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 4 May 2026
On its improbable third album since reuniting in 2014 after a 14-year hiatus, American Football isn’t interested in reclaiming youth so much as interrogating what came after it.
—Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 1 May 2026
Season 50 is honoring its past and legacy, actively interrogating it, dropping players from different eras into direct competition and letting the game itself reveal what has changed and what hasn’t.
—Clayton Davis, Variety, 14 Apr. 2026
Or gents or anyone else, though the Masters isn’t exactly a hotbed of bold, gender-interrogating fashion decisions.
—Aj Willingham, AJC.com, 6 Apr. 2026
The board will spend the next few months interrogating submissions from all three cities and speaking to their champions in more detail.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 30 Mar. 2026
Such works treat their characters as political beings with complex lives worth interrogating.
—Jake Pitre, The Atlantic, 7 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for interrogating
Noun
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Since Socrates, dialectical thinking had been a method of eliciting truth through questioning and refutation.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
15 June 2026
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Three people were taken into custody for questioning and police recovered a gun.—
Kerry Burke,
New York Daily News,
14 June 2026
Verb
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Birding has gone fully mainstream in 2026, and millions of new converts are asking the same beginner questions.—
Hanna Wickes,
Kansas City Star,
18 June 2026
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County staff, led by planning director Todd Smith, gave an extensive presentation during Tuesday’s meeting with supervisors periodically asking questions.—
Graham Womack,
Sacbee.com,
17 June 2026
Verb
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Sports features prominently across day one, with JioStar sports and live experiences CEO Ishan Chatterjee examining sport as a platform for fandom, AI and commerce, followed by ICC CEO Sanjog Gupta on cricket’s global expansion and La Liga president Javier Tebas on fan engagement and enforcement.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
16 June 2026
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Federal investigators have arrived at Butler Memorial Airport to begin examining the plane crash that killed 12 people Sunday morning.—
Neil Nakahodo,
Kansas City Star,
16 June 2026
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Coming from Spielberg, these scenes come across as a strange and mysterious form of self-interrogation.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
16 June 2026
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Dansby's team and New Boston police officers were ultimately able to get Parker to confess to some of what happened, though her stories changed at times in interrogation footage shown in Maternal Instinct.—
Jessica Sager,
PEOPLE,
14 June 2026
Verb
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The Tennessee Titans went back to the streets quizzing random people in their schedule reveal in a twist to the team’s 2023 schedule reveal.—
Teresa M. Walker,
Chicago Tribune,
15 May 2026
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The talk was impassioned and wide-ranging, with Wood, a longtime del Toro interlocutor, quizzing the filmmaker on everything from his childhood in Guadalajara, Mexico, to his passion for design and scrapbooking.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
8 May 2026
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“Interrogating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/interrogating. Accessed 18 Jun. 2026.
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