interrogator
Americannoun
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a person who interrogates.
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Also called challenger. Radio. a transmitter that emits a signal to trigger a transponder.
noun
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a person who interrogates
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a radio or radar transmitter used to send interrogating signals
Etymology
Origin of interrogator
1745–55; < Late Latin interrogātor; see interrogate, -tor
Example Sentences
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With this method, a device called an interrogator shoots laser pulses down the length of a cable, and some of the light bounces back.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026
"I made a mistake," he says, his voice trembling as an unseen interrogator presses him about the deaths of members of Iran's security forces.
From Barron's • Jan. 26, 2026
When Yusra is relentlessly grilled by an Israeli customs agent on her first trip back home since her family fled the region in the 1960s, she has just one question for her interrogator:
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2025
The interrogator said Blunt was not "at ease" as he spoke, and every question "was followed by a long pause" while he "seemed to be debating with himself how to answer it".
From BBC • Jan. 13, 2025
“I’ve been easy on you until now because you are a kid,” the interrogator said.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
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