survey(LOOK AT)formal

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to look at someone or something
lookLook over there! A rainbow!
watchI sat by the window and watched people walking past.
glanceShe glanced around the room to see who was there.
peepShe peeped through the curtains to see what was happening.
peekHe peeked inside the box.
stareDon't stare at people like that - it's rude.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Analysing and evaluating
adjudication
analysable
analyse
analyser
analyst
assign
dive
have the measure of someone/somethingidiom
inspect
inspection
interpret
interpretable
interpretive
microscope
reinspection
reinterpret
reinterpretation
reinvestigate
reinvestigation
weigh

scrutinize | American Dictionary

scrutinize
verb[ T ]
us/ˈskru·tənˌɑɪz/
to examine someone or something very carefully:
All new products are scrutinized by the laboratory.

scrutinize | Business English

scrutinize
verb[ T ]
(UK alsoscrutinise)uk /ˈskruːtɪnaɪz/us
to examine something very carefully in order to discover information:
The data raises questions about how closely Wall Street banks scrutinized the loans.

Examples of scrutinize

scrutinize
Existing ethnic and civic practices should be scrutinized, and only those which secure the reasoned acceptance of all those affected by it should be upheld.
When buying and selling in the marketplace they scrutinize and carefully choose every single coin.
Instead of legal principles tested and scrutinized by numerous judges in a variety of factual situations, law codes reflected the opinion of its drafter.
The bibliographies of articles so extracted were scrutinized to identify other potentially relevant articles.
Things to which almost no attention was paid before the operation are now closely scrutinized.
These items were only visible to a single onstage performer, whose varying reactions (or grim determination not to react) were carefully scrutinized by those offstage.
In spite of the complex scoring procedures, scrutinizing civil servants consulted with the regional director throughout and referred the controversial cases for authoritative decisions.
Fieldnotes and transcripts were initially scrutinized in detail to map all the component dimensions and their respective properties.
Titles and abstracts from electronic searches were scrutinized and all potentially relevant articles were obtained.
The election results of their individual candidates were also closely scrutinized by the political parties.
Sandweiss then scrutinizes the varied ways in which city-dwellers used their homes and streets and, in turn, helped to define distinct neighbourhoods.
To assess trustworthiness in these terms receivers may scrutinize the statements of senders for their political correctness.
The transcriptions and written notes were scrutinized to determine the most common themes to match the questions and any other emergent topics.
The documents will first be scrutinized in terms of their internal and external consistencies.
Disagreements were resolved through discussion after scrutinizing the video recordings.
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