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audit, check (out), con, examine, overlook, oversee, review, scan, scrutinize, survey, view
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This means long outages during the storm and days later while wires are inspected. — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, "Letter: Environmentalists at root of state’s wildfire problem," 29 Aug. 2019 Earlier this year, drivers said that while buses were inspected daily, there was pressure to keep them on the road and that intermittent problems like broken air conditioners, horns and turn signals often emerged. — Kurtis Alexander, SFChronicle.com, "Yosemite’s review of park concessionaire Aramark slams it for poor service," 28 Aug. 2019 Shortly after, another man who claimed to work for a shipping company asked FK for money to ensure the package was not inspected at customs, the complaint alleges. — Faith Karimi, CNN, "2 Nigerian men in California oversaw a romance scam that targeted women worldwide, feds say," 23 Aug. 2019 Previously, local fire stations handled inspected batches of homes located in the high-fire risk areas, which represent more than two-thirds of all the homes in the city, Ragusa said. — Lila Seidman, Glendale News-Press, "Confused about the fire department’s brush inspection fee? Here’s what it’s for," 20 Aug. 2019 It was listed as a 24-hour day care which was last inspected on Dec. 28. — Fox News, "Pennsylvania day care center fire kills 5 children, 4 of them siblings, report says," 12 Aug. 2019 Around 7,000 dorm rooms had been inspected at Lackland, with another 1,000 left to go. — Sig Christenson, ExpressNews.com, "Mold found in 1,100 dorm rooms on Lackland," 31 July 2019 Building officials said they all had been inspected last month. — Alejandro Serrano, chicagotribune.com, "2 elevators got stuck at Chicago’s former John Hancock Center over a recent weekend: ‘I don’t know what they have to do’," 29 July 2019 The 111 containers consisting of plastics, syringes and suspected human remains are believed to have been sent from the U.K. in 2017, the BBC reports, but were only inspected last week after port officials complained of a putrid smell. — Hillary Leung, Time, "Sri Lankans Ask the U.K. to Take Back Rotten Waste," 25 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'inspect.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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