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once-overs

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plural of once-over

as in interrogations

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The students also demanded changes in the judiciary and urgent investigations in top-level corruption cases that might have been sidelined due to political pressure under Vucic.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 30 Oct. 2026
Voting by noncitizens has been shown by audits and investigations to be extremely rare.

— Jude Joffe-Block, NPR, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of investigations

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Graham is a senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution, a professor at the University of Maryland’s School of Public Policy, and a senior scientist at Gallup, whose World Poll supplied the data for her latest paper.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2026
Earlier studies collected nearly 200 kill dates from beneath them—not one is older than 2,000 years.

— Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of studies

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Defeat effectiveness exceeded approximately 75 to 80 percent, while operator observations indicated the system was even more effective at preventing hostile UAS from successfully completing their missions.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 30 Oct. 2026
SpaceX now seems increasingly disinterested in the US government for most contracts outside of data services, such as Starshield for military communications and observations.

— Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of observations

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Melanie Challenger Melanie Challenger writes, researches, and broadcasts on the history of ideas, the history and philosophy of science, and the relationship between humans and the living world.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 Aug. 2026
Decades after researches first sequenced the human genome, scientists throughout the world are still working to understand it.

— Gary Skuse, The Conversation, 28 Apr. 2026

Definition of researches

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Over and over for years these probes would continue, burning through the resources of five bureaus to turn up exactly the same information in every report.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 Oct. 2026
The administration has targeted universities across the country with probes and threats to pull federal funding in response to pro-Palestinian protests on campus, diversity initiatives and transgender policies.

— Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 20 Oct. 2026

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