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as in asked
to put a question or questions to
quickly quizzed her about the assignment before heading off to class
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as in interrogated
to put a series of questions to
hated the way those relatives would quiz me about my partner and our living arrangements
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Recent Examples of quizzed
The Kids Baking Championship co-hosts quizzed each other on Gen Z (and Gen Alpha) slang in a funny new Food Network video.
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Erin Clements, PEOPLE, 7 Jan. 2026
The attorney general used the same tactic when Durbin quizzed her about a July memo from her department announcing no new information had been found in its Epstein files.
—Emily Goodin, Miami Herald, 7 Oct. 2025
The exec was later quizzed why HBO Max Spain had not yet leaned into any of its more successful docs or doc series and expanded them.
—Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 30 Sep. 2025
Egan quizzed the custodian on the relationship.
—Dan Kelly, Kansas City Star, 21 Sep. 2025
All of the participants are new-vehicle owners, and they're quizzed at 90 days of ownership.
—Jamie L. Lareau, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2025
The new show sequestered contestants for 90 days in upstate New York and quizzed them on whether news headlines were real or fake.
—Sydney Topf, The Washington Examiner, 8 Aug. 2025
The actors quizzed each other in a Vanity Fair game posted on YouTube.
—Sabrina Weiss, People.com, 5 Aug. 2025
Hassan quizzed Kennedy on what Medicare Part A, B and C cover.
—Joseph Choi, The Hill, 30 Jan. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for quizzed
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He was asked to be the signal-caller, and that responsibility seemed to hinder his ability to read and react.—
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At just 18 months old, he was cast as baby Toby in Jim Henson’s Labyrinth, after the filmmaker asked the Frouds, who were already working on the film, if their infant could step into the role.—
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Jorge Antonio Rodríguez died that same year after being interrogated by intelligence agents.—
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Whiteness is interrogated and Blackness is structural.—
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Parents have also questioned why no new security procedures have been put in place to improve locker room supervision or restrict cell phone use among the staff.—
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This defiance has rallied Danes behind her, though critics have questioned her ability to defend the homeland.—
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Researchers then examined liver immune cells to determine how their DNA activity was regulated and measured levels of a key receptor.—
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Papers had been presented, models dissected, scenarios examined.—
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“Quizzed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quizzed. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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