interrogation

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Recent Examples of interrogation Directed by Nagai Akira and starring Sato Jiro and Yamada Yuki, the film depicts a high-stakes interrogation involving a man who claims to have visions of bomb explosions. Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 24 Mar. 2026 Phil Nawrocki, a captain with the Scott County Sheriff's Office, was also present at the interrogation. Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 22 Mar. 2026 Behind the large wooden door, its frescoed walls closed to the general public reveal details of the compound's dramatic history, including papal conclaves and the Inquisition interrogation of Galileo Galilei. ABC News, 19 Mar. 2026 After a brief interrogation, he was removed from the country. Adam Ciralsky, Vanity Fair, 19 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for interrogation
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Noun
  • Both were stopped by officers a few blocks away and were taken in for questioning.
    Mike Darnay, CBS News, 31 Mar. 2026
  • In fact, the questioning of Chalker was part of a postmortem examination of a misstep by the case officer who had handed him the key.
    David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Anyone can trigger an adult protection investigation by calling The Florida Abuse Hotline, 1-800-96 ABUSE.
    Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald, 2 Apr. 2026
  • The investigation revealed that the man near the scene was the child's uncle, who was the last person known to be responsible for the child's care, police said.
    Brandon Downs, CBS News, 2 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Either Empire or Lowe’s will handle future customer service inquiries and warranty claims.
    Dan Simms, USA Today, 2 Apr. 2026
  • The realms of philosophy and religion have sometimes intersected in conducting such inquiries as these.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Conservative influencers are pushing for a return to the dark days of 1950s inquisitions.
    Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Most are evasive, a few are obsequious, many are defiant, a few are enraged, and all appear to feel their lives slipping away under the seemingly boundless force of judicial inquisition.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Palm Springs Has Still Got It This desert enclave has long been many things at once—a spa town, a sanctuary away from Hollywood's prying eyes, a design capital, a shoo-in for winter sun.
    Jason Sheeler, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Feb. 2026
  • But in the quietest corner of the 10-acre sanctuary, away from the public’s prying eyes, a cohort of most unusual occupants sleep.
    Shi En Kim, AZCentral.com, 20 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • As recently as 2022, research group IDinsight found unintended pregnancy was, after a lack of money for school fees, the leading cause of girls not returning to education.
    ABC News, ABC News, 2 Apr. 2026
  • These requests typically don’t require changing the name, but rather editing its definition — for instance, the primary feature of a condition may need updating, or research may have found new aspects of a disease.
    Annalisa Merelli, STAT, 1 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Hernandez alone, as placement coordinator, made the selections, Shackelford testified as part of an extensive Inspector General probe.
    Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald, 2 Apr. 2026
  • The science payload to be landed there includes seismometers, a drill to allow emplacement of heat flow and electrical conductivity probes, and instruments to study the magnetic field and surface weathering.
    Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • While the crew will not land on the moon, NASA said the lunar flyby mission is designed to test life support systems and critical operations, paving the way for future moon landings and Mars exploration.
    Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Inside the University of Texas at Arlington planetarium, students and space enthusiasts gathered to witness the next chapter in lunar exploration.
    Erin Jones, CBS News, 2 Apr. 2026

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“Interrogation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/interrogation. Accessed 3 Apr. 2026.

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