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as in asking
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 interrogating
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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Police are asking anyone with information, video or photos of the incident to come forward and call the department tip line at 469-658-3050.—
Briauna Brown, CBS News, 22 Apr. 2026
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Police are asking anyone with additional information to contact the department.— Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 22 Apr. 2026
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But those comparisons won’t do The White Lotus any favors, since Beef is more effective than that series’ second and third seasons in interrogating how exclusive locations sharpen class differences.— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 16 Apr. 2026
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Season 50 is honoring its past and legacy, actively interrogating it, dropping players from different eras into direct competition and letting the game itself reveal what has changed and what hasn’t.— Clayton Davis, Variety, 14 Apr. 2026
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Sources say the character didn’t survive test screenings (audiences kept questioning why Andy needed a roommate at all).— Kennedy French, Variety, 21 Apr. 2026
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Panamanian officials confirmed that Jalil was immediately transferred to the country’s Judicial Investigation Directorate and is expected to face questioning by prosecutors in the coming days.— Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 21 Apr. 2026
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British counter-terrorism officers, some wearing protective clothing, are examining the scene near the Israeli embassy in London after police said an unnamed group claimed to have targeted the building with drones carrying dangerous substances.— Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 17 Apr. 2026
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Now, however, there’s confirmation that the FBI is examining DNA evidence recovered from the scene.— Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 17 Apr. 2026
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Though the biggest payoff came away from the drills — sitting down for dinner with top prospects, quizzing them in the classroom, getting to know them away from the field, talking to the people at those colleges who knew them best.— Zack Rosenblatt, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2026
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Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s been quizzing his members on which strategy to pursue, Republicans said.— Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 12 Mar. 2026
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