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debriefs

verb

present tense third-person singular of debrief

as in interrogates

to officially ask (someone) about a job that has been done or about an experience Police debriefed the hostages upon their return. The pilot was debriefed after his flight.

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Recent Examples of debriefs After the little girl’s exam, Welsh debriefs with the attending physician in the hall. — Courtney Crowder, USA Today, 10 Apr. 2026 Editor Joyce Eng discuss the new name for the SAG Awards, the Actor Awards, and Gerrad debriefs on the Governors Awards. — Gerrad Hall, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Dec. 2025

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One day scholars will teach Lepore’s work alongside Arendt’s, seeing that Lepore interrogates not simply a modern moment, but traces our current machine age back to the 17th-century conceit for artifice as improvement.

— Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2026
Writer-director Ari Aster interrogates not just the social and political turmoil of COVID-19, but also the way social media can exacerbate that unraveling of collective neuroses.

— Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 15 July 2026

Definition of interrogates

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There was a period where airspace was closed in the Gulf after the Iran conflict began, and then questions about whether the region’s growth story would be interrupted.

— Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 2 Oct. 2026
An award decided by sportswriters and broadcasters gives them something convenient to point to when anyone questions that assessment.

— Dan Zaksheske OutKick, FOXNews.com, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of questions

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For more on this, check out STAT’s Katie Palmer’s excellent addition to her timely series Paying for AI, which examines how new clinical AI tools influence the affordability of health care and patients’ long-term health.

— O. Rose Broderick, STAT, 8 Oct. 2026
Given how closely the film examines Musk’s ties to the far right, why not explore that incident further?

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2026

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