interrogation

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Recent Examples of interrogation But his behavior during his interrogation with Taverner edges too far into the absurdly inept. Scott Tobias, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2025 At the rendezvous, newsman Chris Hansen and his cameras would come out, an interrogation would unfold, then the cops would make an arrest. J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 3 Oct. 2025 His attorneys pointed out that Dassey had a low IQ bordering on intellectual disability, and questioned law enforcement's interrogation tactics — including allowing the teen to be interrogated without a parent or attorney present. Kelli Arseneau, jsonline.com, 1 Oct. 2025 The Yogurt Shop Murders, directed by The Great Invisible helmer Margaret Brown and co-produced by A24, focuses on the lasting legacy of trauma the unsolved murders left in their wake and interrogation tactics used in the original investigation that have since been called into question. Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for interrogation
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Noun
  • Philosophical questioning returns for a final edit when Neptune retrogrades back to Pisces.
    USA TODAY, USA Today, 22 Oct. 2025
  • However, Buster was never brought in for questioning.
    Lynsey Eidell, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • He has not been seen in public since March, but the investigation of his activities had not previously been disclosed by Chinese authorities.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Related Stories Ofcom’s investigation found that the documentary’s failure to disclose that the 13-year-old narrator’s father held a position in the Hamas-run administration constituted a material breach of rules requiring factual programs to provide audiences with accurate information.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The inquiry followed a media report alleging Umland touched the tops of a student’s breasts during the trip while applying sunburn treatment in a hotel room, the agency’s records show.
    Danielle DuClos, jsonline.com, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The company’s new parental controls come after the Federal Trade Commission launched an inquiry into several tech companies, including Meta, over how AI chatbots could potentially harm children and teenagers.
    Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • By the time Ono came before his second trial by inquisition, this one at the hands of the governors of the State University System, the counterassault was well and truly underway.
    Ron Cunningham, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 June 2025
  • Biden's physical and mental decline in office and its cover up by those around him is a legitimate scandal worthy of inquisition.
    Carlo Versano, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 May 2025
Noun
  • The prying end also serves as a nail puller, box cutter and bottle opener.
    Ben Coxworth October 07, New Atlas, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The film stages its riot of activity as hard-nosed honesty, but its portrait is ultimately as ginned-up and inexact as the fictional news broadcast’s lurid prying.
    Richard Lawson, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Later research suggested that the first cases appeared along the Washington coast.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Veronique de Rugy is the George Gibbs Chair in Political Economy and a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.
    Veronique De Rugy, Oc Register, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Friday’s revelation about Menchel comes as the House Oversight Committee continues its probe into the case.
    Julie K Brown, Miami Herald, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Licensing officials also allow educators under investigation to forfeit their credentials in exchange for avoiding in-depth probes.
    Danielle DuClos, jsonline.com, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Yet a life so big and complicated is always ripe for further exploration.
    Jeff Pearlman, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2025
  • From dirtbags to gym rats With origins in Alpine exploration, rock climbing developed as a sport in late-19th century Europe.
    Kelli María Korducki, HubSpot, 17 Oct. 2025

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“Interrogation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/interrogation. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

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