REINVESTIGATING Synonyms: 54 Similar and Opposite Words

reinvestigating

verb

present participle of reinvestigate

as in reassessing

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While discussing the city’s overall youth violence prevention strategy Tuesday night, council members Lisa Kaplan and Mai Vang both suggested reassessing oversight of the program to create more cohesion with other departments doing similar work.

— Jennah Pendleton, Sacbee.com, 19 Aug. 2026
Recent reporting suggests several technology companies are already reassessing this approach.

— Michael Edmondson, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of reassessing

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Hochul has made that argument in defending New York’s law, saying local officers should remain focused on investigating crimes rather than using state and local resources to perform ICE’s work.

— María Luisa Paúl, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2026
Researchers spent months investigating whether the event could have been caused by a conventional background process.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of investigating

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In general, the Apes series has been about building on that original concept, expanding, revising, and reimagining it as needed through an initial five-movie series, a one-off remake, and a reboot series launched in 2011.

— Jesse Hassenger, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Sep. 2026
Ternus, the colleague recalled, would spend about an hour in the morning reimagining a product with computer software, then walk into the in-house machine shop and fabricate the part himself on a mill or lathe.

— Sebastian Herrera, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of reimagining

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Anne Dressen, a curator at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, has been researching these questions by surveying hundreds of museum labels and wall texts across Europe and the US.

— Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 28 Aug. 2026
But if the end result is protection for your principal for the next nine months and a substantial return waiting for you when the account matures, the time spent researching your options now will have been well worth it.

— Matt Richardson, CBS News, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of researching

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Viral food trends may offer an easy entry point to exploring a new cuisine, said Shereshewsky, but don’t let that overshadow the history of a dish.

— Rebecca Boone, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2026
Yi offers her readers a dazzling cabinet of curiosities, exploring spirituality, desire and the desperate ways people grasp at each other.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2026

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