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European antifraud investigators have scrutinized the trade data, but they haven’t been able to prove the Russian fuel entering Turkey’s network of storage terminals is leaving for the EU, making sanctions enforcement difficult.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 27, 2025

Roberson’s two-year-old daughter died in 2002, then thought to have resulted from shaken baby syndrome, a condition that health and legal experts have scrutinized in recent years.

From Salon • Oct. 18, 2024

Since the debacle, internet sleuths, royal fanatics and others have scrutinized “new” pictures and videos of and allegedly from the Princess of Wales.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2024

Recent scholars have scrutinized these tales, questioning how much about his reign was distorted and exaggerated by the scholars of his successors, the Han dynasty, to strengthen their own legitimacy.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

Let us now apply the general laws we have scrutinized, to those beings of Nature who interest us the most.

From The System of Nature, Volume 1 by Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'