fact-finding
Britishadjective
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Strengthened "wellbeing safeguards" had been introduced and the use of informal fact-finding meetings had been stopped while a full policy review was conducted, the department said.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
What’s chilling about these interviews is how they don’t feel like whistleblowing but rather a fact-finding inquiry with available explainers who betray little affect or remorse, even when the topic of personal doubt arises.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
Everybody else who gets an ethics complaint or faces an ethics question faces fact-finding about it.
From Slate ● Oct. 5, 2026
The protest came a day after South Korean defence authorities said they had sent a fact-finding mission to assess the situation in Hormuz, while stressing that no decision had been made on any deployment.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
They did, but the court proceeding was mostly a glorified fact-finding inquiry.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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