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Recent Examples of investigative
Citizen Lab’s John Scott-Railton also warned about Cellebrite’s new AI agent Genesis, which can quickly analyze police data and mobile phone extractions to generate investigative leads for cops.
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Thomas Brewster,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2026
This arrest is the result of months of investigative work and collaboration between the Tampa Police Department and our prosecutors.
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Hannah McIlree,
CBS News,
25 June 2026
After extensive investigative efforts, the case remained unsolved and was deemed cold, police said.
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Sofia Saric
june 23,
Miami Herald,
24 June 2026
Law enforcement used the profile to find new investigative leads in the case, which enabled investigators to track down potential relatives and review records.
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David Chiu,
PEOPLE,
24 June 2026
Ghanaian investigative journalist Ahmed Hussein-Suale Divela was murdered in January 2019 after receiving threats for his reporting on alleged corruption among African football officials, including the president of the Ghana Football Association.
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Gypsy Guillén Kaiser,
Fortune,
23 June 2026
When the sergeant attempted an investigative stop, the driver refused to stop and fled.
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Mark Price,
Charlotte Observer,
23 June 2026
The work to identify Pumphrey’s remains was a collaborative effort led by FHD Forensics, which uses DNA technology and forensic investigative genetic genealogy for unknown subject investigations.
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Drew Pittock,
USA Today,
22 June 2026
In other words, the recording process is largely administrative, not investigative.
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Donovan McCarty,
The Conversation,
22 June 2026
Thomas Brewster,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2026
This arrest is the result of months of investigative work and collaboration between the Tampa Police Department and our prosecutors.
—
Hannah McIlree,
CBS News,
25 June 2026
After extensive investigative efforts, the case remained unsolved and was deemed cold, police said.
—
Sofia Saric
june 23,
Miami Herald,
24 June 2026
Law enforcement used the profile to find new investigative leads in the case, which enabled investigators to track down potential relatives and review records.
—
David Chiu,
PEOPLE,
24 June 2026
Ghanaian investigative journalist Ahmed Hussein-Suale Divela was murdered in January 2019 after receiving threats for his reporting on alleged corruption among African football officials, including the president of the Ghana Football Association.
—
Gypsy Guillén Kaiser,
Fortune,
23 June 2026
When the sergeant attempted an investigative stop, the driver refused to stop and fled.
—
Mark Price,
Charlotte Observer,
23 June 2026
The work to identify Pumphrey’s remains was a collaborative effort led by FHD Forensics, which uses DNA technology and forensic investigative genetic genealogy for unknown subject investigations.
—
Drew Pittock,
USA Today,
22 June 2026
In other words, the recording process is largely administrative, not investigative.
—
Donovan McCarty,
The Conversation,
22 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for investigative
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And Disneyland’s recent attraction updates have by and large been winners, as evidenced by the lovely Tiana’s Bayou Adventure, the exploratory Adventureland Treehouse and the bewitching Snow White’s Enchanted Wish.
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The exploratory committee will take about a year to complete its work.
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Martha Skye Murphy, the British experimental singer-songwriter, and her longtime collaborator Roy Montgomery, the New Zealand guitar composer, will release their debut joint album via AD 93 on August 7.
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So the answer scientists came up with was to build some of the biggest, deepest, and most exotic experimental traps in scientific history … and then wait.
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Here was a government that had explicitly borrowed from Beijing’s developmental playbook and sincerely attempted to imitate it, but failed.
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Before that, people with mental illnesses or developmental and intellectual disabilities were largely confined to institutions.
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Our system already demands that evidence be relevant and probative.
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This request is denied since these holes in the factual record, where defendants hold the pertinent backup evidence—should such evidence exist—are actually probative in assessing the reliability and accuracy, or lack thereof, of other representations by defendants about their actions more broadly.
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Prominent civil rights attorneys Ben Crump and Van Turner, who are representing the family of Kohen Wiley, released preliminary findings from the independent autopsy during a news conference on July 1.
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The sheriff's office says a preliminary investigation found that workers were installing underground tanks.
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“Investigative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/investigative. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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