interviewed

past tense of interview
as in surveyed
to go around and approach (people) with a request for opinions or information a reporter at the scene interviewing witnesses to the explosion

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Recent Examples of interviewed By that time, investigators had run down anonymous tips, interviewed witnesses and contacted attorneys hired by the accused, the documents show. — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2026 ProPublica reviewed a trove of evidence gathered by the FBI and thousands of pages of legal records, and interviewed dozens of people familiar with Navatek, its Washington operations and the FBI inquiry to conduct our own investigation. — Katie Nixdorf, ProPublica, 3 Oct. 2026 To get past the numbers and better understand the issues of children with disabilities in foster care, NPR interviewed former foster youth about their experiences — like Laundersville. — Joseph Shapiro, NPR, 3 Oct. 2026 Fever security interviewed the fan and witnesses and found no Fan Code of Conduct violation. — Jackson Thompson Outkick, FOXNews.com, 3 Oct. 2026 Researchers also interviewed the parents and their athlete children. — Don Riddell, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2026 But investigators interviewed Ellaboudy’s supervisor, who reported having no knowledge of any international travel or of an Energy Department missile inspection program that Ellaboudy would have been assigned to, an FBI affidavit said. — Eric Tucker, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026 To understand what went wrong in Los Angeles, the researchers behind the report evaluated in person more than 900 structures that burned and interviewed 200 residents and 295 people working at 22 agencies involved in the fire response. — Evan Bush, NBC news, 2 Oct. 2026 Flores was arrested three days later, per police, and was interviewed at Miami Police headquarters. — Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 25 Sep. 2026
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surveyed
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  • Susanna hung to a strap in the crowded car, and critically surveyed the seated crowd spreading just below, from which no one had separated and individualized himself by giving her a seat.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Oct. 2026
  • The results also differed markedly depending on the wealth of the country surveyed.
    — Will McCurdy, PC Magazine, 4 Oct. 2026

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“Interviewed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/interviewed. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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