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
have the measure of someone/somethingidiom
inspect
inspection
interpret
interpretable
interpretive
microscope
parse
reinspection
reinterpret
reinterpretation
reinvestigate
reinvestigation
weigh

Examples of scrutinized

scrutinized

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

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.
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.
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.
Yet it is not something that historians of the race riots of the early twentieth century have hitherto scrutinized closely.
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.
The value scrutinized by a case expression can be an arbitrary expression, and is not restricted to be a simple variable or constant.
We identified 429 patients 0 years of age with such a diagnosis and scrutinized their medical records.
The cage was scrutinized until a fly was observed to start stridulating whereupon that fly was observed exclusively until it stopped stridulating.
Some projects clearly need to be scrutinized in detail but others less so.
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