interrogator
noun
in·ter·ro·ga·tor
| \ in-ˈter-ə-ˌgā-tər
, -ˈte-rə-\
, -ˈte-rə-\
Definition of interrogator
1
: one that interrogates
2
: a radio transmitter and receiver for sending out a signal that triggers a transponder and for receiving and displaying the reply
Examples of interrogator in a Sentence
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Communist interrogators, the reasoning went, plainly had access to futuristic techniques. — Christopher Tayler, Harper's magazine, "New Books," 19 Aug. 2019 Defense attorneys said the Hayats had simply made up details in a misguided effort to help their FBI interrogators. — Demian Bulwa, SFChronicle.com, "Hamid Hayat, freed after 14 years in terror case: ‘I’m can’t believe this day came’," 11 Aug. 2019 Wallace was often considered the most feared interviewer on television, an interrogator whose manner was unrelenting and questions probing, to the point that both Sid Caesar and Jack Benny did skits satirizing their ferocity. — San Diego Union-Tribune, "Review: ‘Mike Wallace Is Here’ is as tough minded as the man himself," 2 Aug. 2019 In Monday’s filing, Corfman’s attorneys cited a review of the polygraph exam by Barry Colvert, a longtime polygraph examiner and interrogator for the FBI. — Paul Gattis | Pgattis@al.com, al.com, "Roy Moore ‘likely failed’ polygraph test, Corfman says," 1 July 2019 The tactic is reminiscent of the blaring music once used by American interrogators to torment prisoners in the war on terror in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay. — Caitlin O'kane, CBS News, "West Palm Beach playing "Baby Shark" on loop to drive homeless people away," 17 July 2019 Nonetheless, the other interrogators pieced together how Keyes got away with so many murders. — Dennis Drabelle, Dallas News, "'American Predator' reveals the chilling playbook of a serial killer," 9 July 2019 The matters lay dormant for the first half of the debate, but then Harris, a skilled interrogator, began to question and chastise Biden on stage about his position on busing and his comments about former colleagues in the Senate. — NBC News, "For Kamala Harris and Joe Biden, integration's painful past becomes the present," 28 June 2019 Joseph Buckley, president of John E. Reid & Associates Inc. in Chicago, the company that copyrighted the Reid technique in the early 1960s, adds that Kassin's studies lack validity because they were not conducted using professional interrogators. — Douglas Starr, Science | AAAS, "This psychologist explains why people confess to crimes they didn’t commit," 13 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'interrogator.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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