reinvestigate
Britishverb
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Meanwhile the police agreed they missed opportunities in their investigations, but said they would reinvestigate if new evidence came to light.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2025
“Now that we know it was a thinner shark, we need to reinvestigate its lifestyle, how it really lived, and what caused it to die,” Sternes said.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 21, 2024
So, she and her team set out to reinvestigate both the system’s stars and its gas, using what Murray calls the “latest and greatest” instruments available.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 29, 2023
The Fredericks family has complained that attorneys for the Police Department and officers involved in Fredericks’ arrest have objected to every effort to reinvestigate his death or bring outside expert testimony into the inquest process.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 24, 2023
A scientific commission of inquiry was appointed to reinvestigate the entire project and report upon the work actually accomplished and its value in future operations.
From The American Type of Isthmian Canal Speech by Hon. John Fairfield Dryden in the Senate of the United States, June 14, 1906 by Dryden, John F. (John Fairfield)
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