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Answer for the clue "Close examination ", 8 letters:
scrutiny
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Intense study of someone or something. 2 Thorough inspection of a situation or a case. 3 An examination of catechumens, in the last week of Lent, who were to receive baptism on Easter Day. 4 A ticket, or little paper billet, on which a vote is written. ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the act of examining something closely (as for mistakes) [syn: examination ] a prolonged intense look
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Scrutiny (French: scrutin ; Late Latin: scrutinium ; from scrutari , meaning "those who search through piles of rubbish in the hope of finding something of" and originally from the Latin "scruta," meaning "broken things, rags, or rubbish."). In Roman times, ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "a vote to choose someone to decide a question," from Late Latin scrutinium "a search, inquiry" (in Medieval Latin, "a mode of election by ballot"), from Latin scrutari "to examine, investigate, search," from PIE root *skreu- "to cut; cutting ...
Usage examples of scrutiny.
The blastulas were dubbed the 1-1-2041s, and everything about their lives became the subject of intense public scrutiny and fascination and self-righteous horror.
The sun was now shining brilliantly, and she saw a station crowded with Arabs in white burnouses, who were vociferously greeting friends in the train, were offering enormous oranges for sale to the passengers, or were walking up and down gazing curiously into the carriages, with the unblinking determination and indifference to a return of scrutiny which she had already noticed and thought animal.
He was waiting till darkness should blind the eyes of day, which now appeared to gaze on him with intolerable scrutiny, and to read his very soul, that sickened and writhed with its burthen of sin and sorrow.
The old man looked at her long and curiously, his imperfect sight excusing the closeness of his scrutiny.
Despite all the reasons she had to hate Rurik, Maire felt an intense ache begin in her breasts, which caused their traitorous nipples to bead for his appreciative scrutiny.
From her scrutiny, Minnum intuited that she attached some importance to it.
But because the remains were modern in morphology they came under intense negative scrutiny.
The woman clutching his waist glared from face to face, seemingly both outraged and mystified by their scrutiny.
All major newspapers and news services were removed from prepublication scrutiny by the end of July 1948.
Caderousse, whose countenance flushed darkly as he caught the penetrating gaze of the abbe fixed on him, while the clear, calm eye of the questioner seemed to dilate with feverish scrutiny.
The barren landscape stands forth like an illuminated text presenting itself to the scrutiny of a very strong, refortified ego.
The principle of party spirit prevailed over a sense of justice, for the scrutiny of an election is nothing more than a revision of the poll itself, and if such revision cannot be completed before the period at which the writ is returnable, he is bound by his office and oath to make the return agreeably to the poll as actually taken.
Purposefully, the woman snatched up the tin of beans, subjected it to a rather scatological scrutiny, then, with amazing strength, hurled it against a boulder at the edge of the campsite.
He worried that they only had the house in which Martin Donohue was holed up under scrutiny, rather than the young seminarian well in hand.
CHAPTER V THE RED-HAIRED GIRL THE SHADOW pretended to be unconscious of the scrutiny that the flustered Spooner gave him.