QUESTIONINGS Synonyms: 22 Similar and Opposite Words

questionings

noun

plural of questioning

as in interrogations

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Noun

Food safety experts say investigations into outbreaks like this often trace contamination back to farms and water sources long before products reach restaurants.

— Eric Henderson, CBS News, 6 Aug. 2026
His work pioneered investigations into innovative approaches targeting cancer stem cells and integrative oncology.

— Tanya Benedicto Klich, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of investigations

Noun

Much existing research has had to rely on estimating which tasks could potentially be accomplished by AI, or indirect surveys rather than actual spending or usage records.

— Sebastian Herrera, Fortune, 8 Aug. 2026
The committee’s valuations rest heavily on surveys in which surgeons estimate their own operating time.

— Geri Stengel, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of surveys

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Lee says Carl Jung’s explorations of a person’s darker urges, hidden side and projection directly influenced the writing, especially when confronting those aspects in Lee himself.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2026
His explorations of being poor, marginal, and stereotyped took many forms, including drawing and painting, which are the focuses of a posthumous exhibition of his work at the Drawing Center.

— Coco Fusco, The New York Review of Books, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of explorations

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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
Having heard of the fruitful researches carried on by you last year on the hitherto little understood properties of water surfaces.

— Mariel Carr, Scientific American, 20 Mar. 2026

Definition of researches

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Rubiano, who will be the biennial’s curator of public programs and outreach, is the director of humanities and literary studies at Jorge Tadeo Lozano University.

— News Desk, Artforum, 3 Aug. 2026
She was born and raised in Rockland County, New York, and graduated from Binghamton University with a double major in comparative literature and Judaic studies.

— Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of studies

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Becoming a therapist requires years of education, supervised practice, licensing examinations and often substantial student debt.

— Wayne Lonstein, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
A number of projects deal with themes of displacement, migration and belonging, while examinations of aging and later life stages are also among the films receiving grants.

— Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 4 Aug. 2026

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