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as in interrogates
to put a series of questions to
the defense attorney was eager to examine her star witness
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as in inspects
to look over closely (as for judging quality or condition)
the customer painstakingly examined the antique piece of furniture from top to bottom before purchasing it
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as in explores
to search through or into
a groundbreaking study that examined the causes of juvenile delinquency
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Recent Examples of examines
Mathias Fuelling examines the impact of Vasily Grossman’s writing, in the Soviet Union and beyond.
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Literary Hub,
1 July 2026
Commissioned in 2023, the Alameda County Reparations Commission’s report examines the historical and ongoing effects of racial discrimination against the Black population.
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Chase Hunter,
Mercury News,
1 July 2026
Vic examines the game’s boundaries and repeatedly crosses them, while mostly failing to keep a straight face.
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Tasha Robinson,
Vulture,
30 June 2026
The microscope that examines living cells is still used today.
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Sandra Guzmán,
USA Today,
29 June 2026
The killing of San Jose State University student Richard Phan — and the wrong-twin mystery that followed — is now the subject of the Audible Original podcast Blood Will Tell, which examines the investigation and its years-long fallout.
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Christina Coulter,
PEOPLE,
29 June 2026
Through interviews with translators and side-by-side comparisons of text, Hahn examines the many problems that translators face.
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The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
29 June 2026
In a new story, The Washington Post examines how these four women are navigating this increasingly common reality in the United States.
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Robert Samuels,
Washington Post,
28 June 2026
This hard-to-watch documentary examines the case, how hospital administrators caught Letby, and the complex feelings of the surviving families.
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K. Thor Jensen,
PC Magazine,
26 June 2026
Literary Hub,
1 July 2026
Commissioned in 2023, the Alameda County Reparations Commission’s report examines the historical and ongoing effects of racial discrimination against the Black population.
—
Chase Hunter,
Mercury News,
1 July 2026
Vic examines the game’s boundaries and repeatedly crosses them, while mostly failing to keep a straight face.
—
Tasha Robinson,
Vulture,
30 June 2026
The microscope that examines living cells is still used today.
—
Sandra Guzmán,
USA Today,
29 June 2026
The killing of San Jose State University student Richard Phan — and the wrong-twin mystery that followed — is now the subject of the Audible Original podcast Blood Will Tell, which examines the investigation and its years-long fallout.
—
Christina Coulter,
PEOPLE,
29 June 2026
Through interviews with translators and side-by-side comparisons of text, Hahn examines the many problems that translators face.
—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
29 June 2026
In a new story, The Washington Post examines how these four women are navigating this increasingly common reality in the United States.
—
Robert Samuels,
Washington Post,
28 June 2026
This hard-to-watch documentary examines the case, how hospital administrators caught Letby, and the complex feelings of the surviving families.
—
K. Thor Jensen,
PC Magazine,
26 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for examines
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Barragán originally set out to find the man who scammed his mother by posing as a handsome American soldier, but now interrogates four of these young men, illuminating their psychological tactics, economic hardships and moral dilemmas.
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Advent has effectively digitized its own intellectual history — its wins, its misses, its assumptions — and turned it into a live analytical layer that interrogates every new deal that comes before the committee.
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The mission simulates a scenario in which a maneuverable satellite rapidly approaches and inspects another spacecraft that is not cooperating.
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Nida Wongphanlert inspects an amenity bag made from recycled materials at 137 Pillars Suites & Residences.
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The picture book explores the MVP’s journey to stardom and his drive to never give up.
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Running through the summer, the show explores the science of how living things (human or otherwise) might breathe, eat and work in extreme conditions beyond Earth.
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The observatory has spent over two decades as a sort of orbital sentinel that scans the cosmos for gamma-ray bursts, ready to quickly point itself at the short-lived — but insanely powerful — space explosions at a moment's notice.
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Dark Web Monitoring scans the dark web for your data, and Privacy Monitor seeks your data profile on data broker and aggregator websites.
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Around 4,200 tonnes of textile waste were found, according to OLAF, which investigates fraud against the EU budget.
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To understand why men might have adopted a clothing system that prioritized plainness and conformity over color and change, this book investigates the gradual crystallization of this civic uniform of masculinity.
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Schedule system reviews quarterly and assign ownership, with one person responsible for auditing each system, flagging outdated steps and implementing improvements.
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She's being held on $50,000 bail as the District Attorney's Office reviews the case.
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The company organizes thousands of AI agents into statistically representative populations—each agent assigned an age, an income, a zip code, a gender, among other things—and surveys them in place of human respondents.
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Sartori surveys the lagoon weekly by boat for signs of nesting, which would indicate a self-sustaining Venetian colony.
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Thisfinding was published early Friday from World Weather Attribution, a scientific network which analyzes the role of climate change in driving extreme weather events.
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The tool, developed by independent AI engineer Luke Geel, analyzes past results and players’ activity—from posture to blink rate—spotting connections that might be imperceptible to the average viewer but visible to top pros.
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