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experts investigating new ways of dealing with the problem
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Recent Examples of investigates
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.
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Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica, 10 Sep. 2025
Michael ‘Mike’ McCall, founder of MPM Consulting LLC, a forensic accounting firm that investigates allegations of unauthorized financial activities, has seen this shift firsthand.
—Jason Phillips, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
The second series investigates deaths involving apparent falls from heights — examining whether victims were pushed from locations like balconies, cliffs and bridges.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
New research investigates the possibility that different spacecraft could visit Comet 3I/ATLAS, giving scientists a unique on-location view of the interstellar visitor, or even offering the chance to collect material that could be much older than the bodies of our solar system.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Chris Depue, a spokesman for the task force that investigates police shootings.
—Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 31 Aug. 2025
Dennis was assigned to a unit that investigates criminal enterprises, organized crime and major theft.
—Bebe Hodges, The Enquirer, 25 Aug. 2025
The dark comedy stars Margaret Qualley as Honey O’Donahue, a small-town private investigator who investigates a slew of strange deaths tied to a church in Bakersfield, California.
—Itzel Luna, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2025
Part 2 investigates why Democrats are disadvantaged in redistricting after the 2010 midterm elections.
—Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 6 Aug. 2025
Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica, 10 Sep. 2025
Michael ‘Mike’ McCall, founder of MPM Consulting LLC, a forensic accounting firm that investigates allegations of unauthorized financial activities, has seen this shift firsthand.
—Jason Phillips, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
The second series investigates deaths involving apparent falls from heights — examining whether victims were pushed from locations like balconies, cliffs and bridges.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
New research investigates the possibility that different spacecraft could visit Comet 3I/ATLAS, giving scientists a unique on-location view of the interstellar visitor, or even offering the chance to collect material that could be much older than the bodies of our solar system.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Chris Depue, a spokesman for the task force that investigates police shootings.
—Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 31 Aug. 2025
Dennis was assigned to a unit that investigates criminal enterprises, organized crime and major theft.
—Bebe Hodges, The Enquirer, 25 Aug. 2025
The dark comedy stars Margaret Qualley as Honey O’Donahue, a small-town private investigator who investigates a slew of strange deaths tied to a church in Bakersfield, California.
—Itzel Luna, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2025
Part 2 investigates why Democrats are disadvantaged in redistricting after the 2010 midterm elections.
—Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 6 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for investigates
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My work explores the contradictions shaping women's lives in Italian society, focusing on how gender norms intersect with personal and collective acts of agency.—
Vogue,
Vogue,
5 Sep. 2025
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The movie explores a gentle legend whose father’s premature death gave him his own ticking clock and gives new context to some of Candy’s most memorable screen moments, showing how the man and his characters often melded in magical ways.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
5 Sep. 2025
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Produced by Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, in association with Wolf Entertainment, Law & Order examines the criminal justice system and tells the stories of the police who investigate crime and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
9 Sep. 2025
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In his brilliant book A Little Devil in America, Hanif Abdurraqib examines how Black performance is woven into the fabric of American life and culture—adored, abhorred, exploited, commodified, appropriated.—
Lauren Morrow
September 9,
Literary Hub,
9 Sep. 2025
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