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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
investigate .
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Examples
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What needs to be investigated is how our tax dollars came to be used to fund the left wing of the Democrat party in the first place.
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Being investigated is wearying and unpleasant enough all by itself.
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Oh come one AK907 being investigated is not the same as convicted, and make funds available to non profits is not the same as giveing ACORN money.
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Lynndie England's bad luck is that the Abu Ghraib "abuses" (if we want to use such a meagre word for what amounts to torture and murder) are still mostly being investigated from the bottom up, with - so the official narrative goes - everything just being a case of a few "bad apples".
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Here, the trust being investigated is the reliability or usefulness of the information provided by the site, I believe.
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When one of the arguments on why it can†™ t be investigated is because it is all classified, the first step would be to unclassify it so it can be investigated.
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This requirement of secrecy makes some sense if the person investigated is a terrorist suspect; it makes much less sense if the person being investigated is a reporter or a member of the public whom the FBI does not actually believe is associated with terrorism or espionage.
Balkinization 2006
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It's worth a journalist at least investigating, and the way we get it investigated, is to put it out there.
03/30/2005 2005
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This little tiny object, according to quantum mechanics and according to all the work by which the neutron has been investigated, is simultaneously a particle and a wave.
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The CFCs are compounds similar to others that Sherry and I had investigated from the point of view of molecular dynamics; we were familiar with their chemical properties, but not with their atmospheric chemistry.
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