as in audits
a close look at or over someone or something in order to judge condition
a prison cell inspection should include looking under the bed, to say the least
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Recent Examples of inspections
As a result, the manufacturer recommended visual inspections during routine maintenance cycles, typically every 60 months, rather than urgent repairs or mandatory part replacement.
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Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 15 Jan. 2026
Instead, the company suggested the bearing race should be observed during routine inspections.
—Joseph Wilkinson, Mercury News, 15 Jan. 2026
The county performs about 14,000 inspections annually, with 97% of establishments passing, spokesman Ken Casparis previously told The Sacramento Bee.
—Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado
january 14, Sacbee.com, 14 Jan. 2026
Meena is the strategist of the team, Ravi serves as the fearless and principled muscle, and Mitali specializes in tracking high-value goods and executing swift inspections at customs checkpoints.
—Isabella Wandermurem, Time, 14 Jan. 2026
In Louisville, your kitchen will need a three-compartment sink, grease trap and specific plumbing, with the city's health department conducting two inspections each year.
—Krista Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal, 14 Jan. 2026
Hartman said his team performs daily, weekly and monthly inspections along with having a third-party manufacturer provide an annual inspection of the zip line equipment.
—Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2026
The findings are reported by the Iowa Department of Inspections, Appeals and Licensing, which handles food-establishment inspections at the state level.
—Clark Kauffman, Iowa Capital Dispatch, 13 Jan. 2026
For a complete list of local restaurant inspections, including violations not requiring warnings or administrative action, visit our Duval County restaurant inspections site.
—Staff Reports, Florida Times-Union, 13 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inspections
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Legislative audits continue to expose the executive frailty of our state, and spiking property tax assessments leave residents in a state of constant irritation.—
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Polymarket founder Shayne Coplan has stated that his platform can self-police insider trading by its own users and has the ability to conduct internal audits, the Wall Street Journal reported.—
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By age 14, Abergel had dropped out of school, taken his graduate record examinations and ventured to New York in hopes of one day joining the American Ballet Theatre.—
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Nardello is described as a global investigations firm with expertise in tracing company assets, financial examinations, and criminal and civil white collar litigation, the committee said.—
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The study offers rare, direct evidence of this process by tracking cool gas across entire galaxies, something that was not possible before large surveys like MaNGA.—
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Doubts have been cast on jobs data due to misinterpretations of the labor bureau’s routine reviews of its statistics and its admissions about the difficulty of getting answers to its employment surveys.—
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“Inspections.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inspections. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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