interrogator
noun
in·ter·ro·ga·tor
in-ˈter-ə-ˌgā-tər 
-ˈte-rə-
1
: one that interrogates
2
: a radio transmitter and receiver for sending out a signal that triggers a transponder and for receiving and displaying the reply
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Later, Mazen paid two hundred thousand pounds to his interrogators, in the hope of better treatment.
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Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
At the Russian Compound, a 14-year-old said his interrogator shocked and beat him in the legs with sticks to elicit information about a car fire.
—Brett Murphy, ProPublica, 15 Jan. 2025
Rimbaud’s remarks are interspersed throughout and played as responses to interrogators, an allusion to the public’s own need to understand the genius of others, but also a way of giving the audience a bird’s-eye-view on how a man like Dylan thinks.
—Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 3 Jan. 2025
Arendt, who was accused of smuggling anti-Semitic literature out of the library to expose Hitler’s intentions to the West, defends her innocence with such intellectual rigor, conviction, and charm that the audience, like the interrogator, is hard put to decipher the truth.
—airmail.news, 28 Dec. 2024
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Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
At the Russian Compound, a 14-year-old said his interrogator shocked and beat him in the legs with sticks to elicit information about a car fire.
—Brett Murphy, ProPublica, 15 Jan. 2025
Rimbaud’s remarks are interspersed throughout and played as responses to interrogators, an allusion to the public’s own need to understand the genius of others, but also a way of giving the audience a bird’s-eye-view on how a man like Dylan thinks.
—Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 3 Jan. 2025
Arendt, who was accused of smuggling anti-Semitic literature out of the library to expose Hitler’s intentions to the West, defends her innocence with such intellectual rigor, conviction, and charm that the audience, like the interrogator, is hard put to decipher the truth.
—airmail.news, 28 Dec. 2024
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“Interrogator.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/interrogator. Accessed 19 Feb. 2025.
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