How to Use under scrutiny in a Sentence

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  • Council members spent much of the year under scrutiny for their responses to the crime spike.
    John D. Harden, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2023
  • The firm is under scrutiny after a midflight blowout of a fuselage panel on one of its 737 Max 9 jets last month.
    Zen Soo, Fortune Asia, 20 Feb. 2024
  • The papers under scrutiny involve lab research on the workings of cells.
    Carla K. Johnson, Fortune Europe, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Budgets are under scrutiny, and firms are pushing their teams to do more with less and to stretch their research dollars further.
    Bob Casey, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
  • To make matters worse, Khil’s family and the people who support them have been under scrutiny by skeptics who have gone as far as to stalk them.
    Jacob Beltran, San Antonio Express-News, 18 Dec. 2023
  • The app has been under scrutiny from lawmakers on a federal and state level.
    Khadijah Khogeer, NBC News, 13 July 2023
  • Now Goldman’s role in the whole ordeal is coming under scrutiny, as the investment bank stands to profit from SVB’s failures.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Even the online-only tour goodies have been under scrutiny.
    Vulture, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Texans revere their history, even as some of its defining features have, under scrutiny, moved closer to the realm of myth.
    Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Nov. 2023
  • The company has rapidly grown to become one of the key luxury companies in the world—which in some cases has also brought it under scrutiny.
    Byprarthana Prakash, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2023
  • The social context is central to the movie—both the writer and the accused are Black women of African descent, and this matters in the trial, figures in the events under scrutiny, and is central to the writer’s involvement.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2023
  • In recent years, screening for prostate cancer has been under scrutiny, because the test can detect other cancers that are not harmful.
    Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 9 Sep. 2023
  • The case raised further questions about decision-making in the U.S. Antarctic Program, which is under scrutiny.
    CBS News, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Chicago is among the U.S. cities under scrutiny following a mayoral race that focused on public safety in response to demands for change.
    Kathleen Foody, Chicago Tribune, 26 May 2023
  • Cuomo has a long history of trying to sit down with newsmakers who are under scrutiny or out of favor in public discourse.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Club Onyx has a history of violence and other problems The club has come under scrutiny because police have connected at least six shootings to the club since 2021.
    Alexandria Burris, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Prigozhin’s whereabouts have been under scrutiny since Wagner’s aborted mutiny in Russia on June 24.
    Matthew Luxmoore, WSJ, 6 July 2023
  • Harvard has been under scrutiny since tens of student groups issued a statement on the overseas conflict in Israel following the attack.
    Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Soderstrom has been under scrutiny since July after she was caught on camera scrolling through social media and texting during the trial of a man accused in the fatal beating of a 2-year-old.
    CBS News, 12 Oct. 2023
  • The work of bank examiners has been under scrutiny this year since multiple midsize lenders collapsed.
    Katanga Johnson, Fortune, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Those two assertions have come under scrutiny in trial.
    Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2023
  • But Aikman doesn’t believe Prescott’s future in Dallas should under scrutiny.
    Clarence E. Hill Jr., Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Raulston’s work has been under scrutiny long before this year’s evaluations.
    Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Boeing has been under scrutiny since a door plug blew out of an Alaska Airlines plane in January, forcing an emergency landing.
    Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2024
  • Now that affirmative action has been struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court, other practices, such as legacy admissions, are under scrutiny.
    Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 July 2023
  • Zerpa had been under scrutiny over campaign finance reports and his absence from meetings.
    Journal Sentinel, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Even before the harrowing episode with the Max 9 jet, the Biden administration was already under scrutiny for its stewardship of the country’s air travel system.
    Mark Walker, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2024
  • TikTok has been under scrutiny by U.S. officials in recent months.
    C Mandler, CBS News, 27 June 2023
  • The Hillsdale curriculum and ideology have come under scrutiny across the country.
    Rory Linnane, Journal Sentinel, 19 Apr. 2023
  • The ticket reports under scrutiny may have also irrevocably tainted the racial data that the state collects on traffic stops.
    Amelia Nierenberg, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2023

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