scrutinise

Definition

To examine something with great care.

Etymology

From scrutiny + -ise.

Example Sentences

• "Because his opinions are all over the place, they find it easy to scrutinise them and lay them out;"
• "Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month."
• "But few MPs could claim to have followed and scrutinised Government transport policy to the extent that she has over the past decade."