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catechize, grill, interrogate, pump, query, question, quiz, sweat [slang]
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Hours before kickoff, officials from both teams began examining areas of the playing surface in the middle of each end zone. — Matt Kawahara, SFChronicle.com, "Raiders beat Packers on 80-yard field in Winnipeg," 22 Aug. 2019 Williams said her team has been examining different response models in use by other departments both locally and across the country to identify the best option for Phoenix. — Bree Burkitt, USA TODAY, "Phoenix cops must now report whenever they point a gun at someone after record year of shootings," 19 Aug. 2019 ProPublica and The Sacramento Bee are spending 2019 examining overcrowding, resources and inmate treatment in county jails across California. — Jason Pohl, ProPublica, "A Year After an Inmate Was Choked to Death in Jail, a Murder Charge but Few Details," 19 Aug. 2019 Williams said her team has been examining different response models in use by other departments both locally and across the country to identify the best option for Phoenix. — Bree Burkitt, azcentral, "Phoenix police must now self-report whenever they point a gun at someone," 19 Aug. 2019 Donors helped the university check the health of coral reefs in Palau, and to begin to examining whether the century-old drug suramin can treat autism. — San Diego Union-Tribune, "With unexpected speed, UC San Diego raises $2 billion in donations to transform campus," 18 Aug. 2019 Time spent examining more Israeli realities might even persuade them that B.D.S. is an unexamined, contradictory bundle, because boycott, disinvestment, and sanctions are three very different things, hurting very different slices of Israeli society. — Bernard Avishai, The New Yorker, "By Barring Two Congresswomen, Trump and Netanyahu Set a Trap for Democrats," 18 Aug. 2019 Performing the same show every night forces the women into a kind of time loop, and GLOW spends much of the season examining how that loop feels for each of them. — Kelly Connolly, The Atlantic, "GLOW Embraces the Untidy Ending," 15 Aug. 2019 The News has spent more than a year examining Timpa's death and fighting for public records from the city of Dallas and Dallas County. — Cary Aspinwall, Dallas News, "Police responded to his 911 call for help. He died. What happened to Tony Timpa?," 2 Aug. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'examine.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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