SCRUTINIZING Synonyms: 38 Similar and Opposite Words

scrutinizing

verb

present participle of scrutinize

as in examining

to look over closely (as for judging quality or condition) the project's time constraints make it impossible for the programmers to scrutinize every line of code, so some bugs should be expected

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Recent Examples of scrutinizing The outlet also reported that the lawyers assigned to the Pretti investigation were new hires at the Civil Rights Division without expertise in the complicated work of scrutinizing law-enforcement abuses. — Quinta Jurecic, The Atlantic, 6 July 2026 Average transaction values for travel are still high, more than $31,000, but travelers are scrutinizing their receipts and pushing back when rate hikes don't come with better service. — Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026 Neither Swift nor Kelce has publicly commented on the latest wedding rumors, but that hasn't stopped fans from scrutinizing every potential clue. — Tracy Wright, FOXNews.com, 1 July 2026 Roden-Reynolds, the epidemiologist Lea Hamner, and Virginia Barbatti, the executive director of a nonprofit called Tick Free Martha’s Vineyard, were hunched over their laptops at locations around the island, scrutinizing a map of enemy encampments. — Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 29 June 2026 To that end, here are five specific things worth scrutinizing throughout camp. — Dan Wiederer, New York Times, 24 June 2026 Boards and investment committees are heavily scrutinizing transactions before signing off on them, and private capital is becoming more concentrated. — Elsa Ohlen, CNBC, 16 June 2026 Meanwhile, European Union regulators are scrutinizing the deal’s financing and impacts on competition. — Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica, 16 June 2026 But infectious diseases can spread in a crowd, and experts are scrutinizing wastewater, hospital visits, even social media for any signs that an outbreak might be brewing. — Lauran Neergaard, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2026

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So traders looking to get an edge began closely examining Ronaldo’s long, storied career for evidence of crying.

— Jon Sarlin, CNN Money, 11 July 2026
This premise, though intuitive, rests on an assumption worth examining, which is that a device only competes for the mind’s resources when it is actively being used.

— Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026

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The new products included plugins capable of reviewing contracts and carrying out legal workflows that would once have required considerable human time.

— Dan Fitzpatrick, Forbes.com, 11 July 2026
An unpublished version of a new 17-page rule viewable in the Federal Register includes one sentence about Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security favorably reviewing applications involving MGX semiconductors and servers bound for the UAE.

— Luke Fountain, CNBC, 10 July 2026

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While scanning the roadside along I-80 offers a quick, anecdotal glimpse of the winter ahead, local districts maintain contact with Reclamation to track how much runoff will actually make its way to Folsom Lake.

— Corey Schmidt July 10, Sacbee.com, 10 July 2026
Defender normally places hard limits on how big a file can be written to disk when scanning and quarantining a machine.

— Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 9 July 2026

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New research from Omdia, commissioned by Apica and surveying 300 enterprise IT decision-makers, found that 59% of enterprises have already terminated or delayed an agentic AI deployment because observability costs have become unmanageable.

— Andi Mann, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
The Long Goodbye is full of glamorous hippies, with the actor Sterling Hayden (a veteran of the earlier noir era) surveying his domain on the beach in Malibu.

— Carolyn Kellogg, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026

Definition of surveying

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The following day Vaccarello is carefully inspecting a room at a nondescript building on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

— José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 6 July 2026
Scientists at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in the US have developed non-invasive methods for inspecting nuclear power plants.

— Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 2 July 2026

Definition of inspecting

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