Thesaurus results for INVESTIGATING

investigating

verb

present participle of investigate

as in exploring

to search through or into experts investigating new ways of dealing with the problem

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Recent Examples of investigating The Spanish government is investigating accusations detailed in an Amnesty International report of mistreatment and torture by Spanish soldiers. — Joseph Wilson, Arkansas Online, 14 Oct. 2026 The Cobb County Police Department said its major crimes unit is investigating the incident. — David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 13 Oct. 2026 Detectives from the Cobb County Police Department’s major crimes unit are investigating. — Hallie Golden, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026 Police are investigating a shooting that injured a 7-year-old girl and her 29-year-old mother Monday on Detroit's east side. — Dejanay Booth-Singleton, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026 French police investigating the theft of two paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir from a museum on the French Riviera believe the suspects were preparing to rob another institution, the Fondation Maeght in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, prosecutors said Monday. — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 13 Oct. 2026 Military investigators are investigating the outages, but have not commented on the nature of the investigation. — Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 13 Oct. 2026 Prison authorities are investigating the incident as a homicide, and the Office of the Inspector General has been notified, according to CDCR. — Michael McGough, Sacbee.com, 7 Oct. 2026 Detectives are also investigating where the shooters got the guns. — Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 6 Oct. 2026

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This poll is part of an ongoing project exploring the views of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders, who are usually not highlighted in other surveys because of small sample sizes and lack of linguistic representation.

— Terry Tang, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2026
Former Great British Bake Off host Sue Perkins is exploring her late-in-life ADHD diagnosis for the first time in an Audible podcast.

— Max Goldbart, Deadline, 19 Oct. 2026

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