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“The congregation’s inquisitional procedures are indefensible,” the Jesuit-run magazine America editorialized in 2001.

From New York Times • Dec. 31, 2022

She was succinct and measured during the inquisitional thrust and parry; at times resembling a veteran junior high teacher assisting not especially bright students in understanding not just her answers but their own questions.

From US News • Oct. 22, 2015

What Are We to Do?, a study of the "rise and fall" of the British labor movement, is an urbane, inquisitional chronicle of missed opportunities, compromises, retreats, timidities, defeats.

From Time Magazine Archive

But opponents say the change won't work unless France scraps its entire inquisitional justice system and replaces it with the adversarial process that countries such as the U.S., the U.K. and Germany use.

From Time Magazine Archive

Why did he come so often—by what right did he stare at her and question in that searching, inquisitional manner?

From John Marsh's Millions by Hornblow, Arthur