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What was expected to be a quick confirmation hearing turned into an inquisition.inquisition = harsh questioning
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After the company's financial losses were reported, the CEO faced an inquisition from frustrated board members demanding answers.inquisition = harsh questioning or investigation
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In Spain, the Inquisition lasted until 1834; though severe abuses had stopped prior to that.inquisition = former heresy-seeking tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church
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The Inquisition would have imprisoned Goya were it not for the intervention of the King.
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I wanted to be a kid with a name that didn't draw so much attention, a name that didn't come with a built-in inquisition as to when and why I had moved to America and how was it that I spoke English without an accent and was I planning on going back and what did I think of America? (source)inquisition = investigation
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I just lay there, almost catatonic, as my mother hovered, perpetually near, breaking the silence every few minutes with a question-phrased-as-a-statement. Each day is a little better? You're feeling okay? You're improving? The inquisition of declarations. (source)inquisition = investigation or questioning
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In the spirit of mock inquisition, we called the subject the "victim." (source)inquisition = harsh questioning
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Even when the East excited me most, even when I was most keenly aware of its superiority to the bored, sprawling, swollen towns beyond the Ohio, with their interminable inquisitions which spared only the children and the very old — even then it had always for me a quality of distortion. (source)
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At the end of autumn, when the family had calmed down about Father Restrepo, who was forced to mitigate his inquisitional behavior after the bishop had personally warned him to leave little Clara del Valle alone, and when they had all resigned themselves to the fact that Uncle Marcos was truly dead, Severo's political designs began to take shape.† (source)
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The Catholic Church, through its Inquisition, is famous for cultivating Lucifer as the arch-fiend, but the Church's enemies relied no less upon the Old Boy to keep the human mind enthralled. (source)Inquisition = former investigations of the Roman Catholic Church undertaken to discover and suppress heresy
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I'll tell you, inquisitions haven't worked out well for my people in the past.† (source)
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O you inquisitional drunken jewjesuit!† (source)
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It felt like an inquisition. (source)inquisition = harsh investigation
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He would be Death, or Death 's errand-runner, a hollow-eyed technician from the plague era, from the era of inquisitions, endless wars, of bedlams and leprosariums.† (source)
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It's the likes of you that kept the inquisition in business. (source)inquisition = harsh and unfair historical religious investigations
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I imagined her joining me every time I stopped to eat, hovering outside gas station bathrooms, her inexhaustible inquisitions waiting for me whenever my vehicle paused at a light.† (source)
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