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Deep-pocketed pensions and endowments are scrutinizing their private debt holdings, too, worried in part about the funds’ exposure to software companies that could be hurt by the artificial-intelligence boom.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

Spurred by the certainty around the federal estate-tax levels, estate planners and financial advisors are scrutinizing older trusts.

From Barron's • Feb. 28, 2026

The special attention Mangione’s case is receiving from law enforcement officials, however, is part of what some lawyers are scrutinizing about the handling of the shooting.

From Salon • Jan. 1, 2025

But policymakers are scrutinizing services prices and wage growth, traditionally stubborn components of inflation, which remain uncomfortably strong at just below 6 percent annual growth.

From New York Times • May 22, 2024

But how few with competent preparation and equipment, with fearless consecration to truth, unhampered, with fresh free vigor, are scrutinizing the problems of theology, enthusiastically bent upon refuting errors and proving verities!

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville