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UK
/ɪnvˈɛstɪɡətˌɪv/
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[ US /ˌɪnˈvɛstəˌɡeɪtɪv/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnˈvɛstəˌɡeɪtɪv/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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designed to find information or ascertain facts
investigative reporting
a fact-finding committee
How To Use investigative In A Sentence
- Much investigative journalism involves some form of subterfuge. Times, Sunday Times
- Mr. SOARIES: Robert Tilton, Robert Tilton is a so-called televangelist who was discovered to have gotten prayer requests accompanied by money and then when an investigative reporter went behind his church he found all of those prayer requests dumped unopened. NPR Topics: News
- Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., who chairs an investigative subcommittee that will hold a hearing on the report today, said the Obama administration should "get on with it and actually debar the worst of the tax cheats from the contractor workforce. GAO report: Tax cheats received billions in stimulus funds
- She contends that U.S. officials overreacted, rather than dealing pragmatically with adoption procedures in a country where poverty and a long-running insurgency fueled widespread child abandonment, impaired record-keeping, and hampered official investigative capabilities. Despite Hurdles, Families Pursue Nepal Adoptions
- Created by novelist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Holmes was an investigative genius who could routinely assess seemingly random clues and solve the mystery.
- At most, it might be called investigative detention which does not require cautioning a person or advising him or her of a right to retain and instruct counsel.
- If they are that desperate for a news story perhaps some investigative journalism might be in order.
- Screening for the parasite should be part of the investigative procedures in children with chronic diarrhoea.
- The same network (s) that aided and abetted the Bush adminstration in marching us to war in IRAQ without doing a fraction of the investigative journalism they've done throughout this primary on issues of little relevance. Schneider: Two different economic worlds
- They inhibit investigative journalism and allegations of misconduct against powerful people who might sue. Times, Sunday Times