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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of investigate.

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Examples

  • 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.

    Obama: Taped ACORN misdeeds should be investigated 2009

  • Being investigated is wearying and unpleasant enough all by itself.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Your Lawyer’s Wrong: 2010

  • 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.

    Conservative filmmakers will get another hearing 2009

  • 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".

    Conscientious: Politics: March 2008 Archives 2008

  • Here, the trust being investigated is the reliability or usefulness of the information provided by the site, I believe.

    New trusted computing-related blog 2008

  • 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.

    Think Progress » ThinkFast: May 24, 2006 2006

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    Nobel Prize Winning Work on Neutrons 1995

  • 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.

    Mario Molina - Autobiography 1995

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