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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
investigate .
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Examples
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The mystery Gilda investigates is about Juliet and her immediate family; I liked the two perspectives.
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The mystery Gilda investigates is about Juliet and her immediate family; I liked the two perspectives.
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Larkin investigates, and the gruesome prison at Insein, the population now swollen to four times its size in the 1920s.
Review of Emma Larkin's "Secret Histories: Finding George Orwell in a Burmese Teashop" 2004
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The officers in the shooting will be placed on modified assign while Internal Affairs investigates, which is standard procedure.
Phillies Zone 2010
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He was placed on administrative leave while Internal Affairs investigates, which is standard procedure after a weapon is discharged.
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He was placed on administrative leave while Internal Affairs investigates, which is standard procedure after a weapon is discharged.
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A forensic team investigates a karaoke bar where a fire took place in Medan in North Sumatra province December 5, 2009.
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Major League Baseball "investigates" and finds no proof that Yankee pitcher Mariano Rivera spit on a baseball.
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Jane like the rest of the left certainly seem to want us to follow the path of third rate banana republics in which in the incoming Presidente` 'investigates' and goes after the outgoing Presidente` Then again considering the Left's love affair with Castro and his kind, it's not much of a surprise.
Jane Hamsher, get out your pitchfork. Ann Althouse 2009
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Every person Jacques "investigates" can be easily filed under another journalistic term for subjects no longer of interest: "Those we used to love."
Jacques Peretti: I don't have a bloody clue what really happened, but I'll blag my way around the world pretending I do ROB McGIBBON 2009
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