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investigated

verb

past tense of investigate

as in explored

to search through or into experts investigating new ways of dealing with the problem

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Recent Examples of investigated As the agency investigated Beloozerov, a source told CNN, agents learned he had been duped. — Isabelle Chapman, CNN Money, 10 Aug. 2026 The case was investigated by and prosecuted by the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit in the Office of the Chief State’s Attorney. — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 10 Aug. 2026 Out of an abundance of caution, passengers were temporarily deplaned while deputies investigated the incident. — Zachary Bynum, CBS News, 10 Aug. 2026 An Indian national was arrested and charged with murder after fleeing the country as police investigated the death of his 19-year-old girlfriend in Tucson, Arizona. — Shayna Jacobs, NBC news, 9 Aug. 2026 The killing is the 33rd homicide investigated by the Oakland Police Department this year. — Harry Harris, Mercury News, 9 Aug. 2026 The Moscow Investigative Committee said on Saturday evening the attack was still being investigated. — ABC News, 2 Aug. 2026 He was suspended from the team and the Gainesville Police Department investigated the incident. — Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 31 July 2026 Utrecht University investigated potential conflicts of interest in Verster’s partnership with Red Bull more than a decade ago. — Ashley Okwuosa, STAT, 30 July 2026

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First, there was Green Porno, her series of shorts that launched in 2008 on the Sundance Channel and explored some of the more bizarre mating behaviors in nature.

— Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 6 Aug. 2026
Crutchfield and Molt’s rivalry is explored in the book Stolen World by Jennie Erin Smith—like Monsters of God’s first episode, the author uses the two men as a window into how smuggling has fuelled the popularity of reptiles in modern America.

— Rory Doherty, Time, 6 Aug. 2026

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Afterward, rescuers and a veterinary team from the University of California, Davis examined the horse and sedated it.

— Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 3 Aug. 2026
However, no one had directly examined fully strained films thinner than about four nanometers using techniques capable of measuring both the motion and spin of electrons at the same time.

— Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 2 Aug. 2026

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