questionings

noun

plural of questioning
as in interrogations

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for questionings
  1. investigations
  2. inquisitions
  3. surveys
  4. questionnaires
  5. explorations
  6. researches
  7. studies
  8. examinations
Noun
  • Federal agencies coordinate enforcement The task force will coordinate criminal investigations and civil enforcement involving SI across the Justice Department.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 6 Nov. 2026
  • Rolón has ordered three criminal investigations into the Ueno Bank crisis, including claims involving Peña and other current and former government officials, the prosecutor's office said Thursday.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of investigations
Noun
  • Conservative influencers are pushing for a return to the dark days of 1950s inquisitions.
    — Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 6 Mar. 2026
  • McCullum generally leaves in-match inquisitions to his loyal lieutenants, Marcus Trescothick and Jeetan Patel.
    — Paul Newman, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2026
Definition of inquisitions
Noun
  • Fiber consistently comes out on top in our customer satisfaction surveys, so why settle for second best?
    — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 5 Nov. 2026
  • Some candidates ran on Medicare-for-all, a national health insurance plan, which has become increasingly popular in public opinion surveys.
    — Selena Simmons-Duffin, NPR, 4 Nov. 2026
Definition of surveys
Noun
  • Symptoms, sleep habits, and how well antidepressants worked were all self-reported, and the circadian markers came from questionnaires rather than direct measures of the body clock.
    — Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 21 Oct. 2026
  • The participants reported their weekly physical activity via questionnaires.
    — Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of questionnaires
Noun
  • Academic explorations of how religious belief might influence attitudes to potential alien life are spotty at best, but that dearth of research could change.
    — Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 29 Oct. 2026
  • New explorations such as the British Library’s exhibit are providing fresh insights about the adventure-seeking woman who kept pace with the radical change in her lifetime, from 1890 to 1976.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of explorations
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • Specialists must evaluate a patient's symptoms, medical history, neurological examinations and imaging results to determine whether the disease is present.
    — Jasmine Arenas, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Jean also said at least a dozen children underwent medical examinations and that Osbeck lacked the documentation required to operate an orphanage.
    — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of examinations
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