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as in asks
to put a question or questions to her roommates catechized her about every detail of her first day at her new job
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as in interrogates
to put a series of questions to applicants are rigorously catechized by the seminary's rector regarding their motives for joining the priesthood
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Luna asks what the customer is purchasing and creates a corresponding transaction on a nearby iPad equipped with a card payment system.—
David Ingram, NBC news, 11 Apr. 2026
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Tickets are not required to pick daffodils at Shickasheen, but the farm asks that visitors bring their own scissors or pruners.— Catherine Messier, The Providence Journal, 11 Apr. 2026
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Hitchcock's greatest film is a perfect thriller that interrogates our obsession with observing the lives of others.— Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Apr. 2026
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June interrogates him about Frankenstein and mentions the creature being forced to do another’s bidding.— Alice Burton, Vulture, 30 Mar. 2026
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Rendering examines how artificial intelligence is disrupting the entertainment industry, taking you inside key battlegrounds and spotlighting change makers wielding the technology for good and ill.— Jake Kanter, Deadline, 16 Apr. 2026
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In the final hours of President Biden's term, a Polymarket trader made around $300,000 correctly betting on Biden's last-minute pardons, according to new data provided to NPR by an analytics firm that examines cryptocurrency transactions.— Bobby Allyn, NPR, 16 Apr. 2026
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Alma Allen‘s pavilion for the United States at the 2026 Venice Biennale has become a proxy fight over politics, process, and cultural authority—questions the artist himself has little interest in adjudicating.— Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 20 Apr. 2026
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Riley questions whether his actions since have been in line with this bond.— Max Goldbart, Deadline, 16 Apr. 2026
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