adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an investigative reporter (= one that tries to find out about something important )
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Two investigative reporters wrote an article linking the CIA to cocaine trafficking in Los Angeles.
an investigative/investigating commission
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An investigative commission was set up immediately after the incident.
investigative journalism (= journalism that examines an event or situation in order to find out the truth )
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The hospital has been the target of investigative journalism .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
journalism
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This is not entirely the result of political control, since the privately owned press shows no greater inclination towards investigative journalism .
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It's an occupational hazard of investigative journalism .
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It is investigative journalism of a very limited scope.
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Thus, during 1984, investigative journalism had a field day.
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Perhaps I should take up this investigative journalism .
journalist
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She was thirty-two, an editor with a distinguished publishing house, married to an investigative journalist .
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A general privilege for investigative journalists ?
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And Mark Thomas, 37, comedian and de facto investigative journalist , is nothing if not controversial himself.
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As I understand it, the London food commission is a consumerist pressure group staffed by academics and investigative journalists .
report
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Newsday, for example, had already won two Pulitzer Prizes for its investigative reports years before Watergate happened.
reporter
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Where were the campaigning editors and investigative reporters ?
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Time also has worked wonders, pruning many of the bad investigative reporters and retaining many of the good ones.
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As an investigative reporter , Mundy does a terrific job of untangling this complex snarl of interrelated cases.
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Improper behavior by individual political actors or by government agencies is exposed and widely communicated by investigative reporters .
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As for the business with the docks, if that wasn't a case of drug smuggling, Hill was no investigative reporter .
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Who wants to become an investigative reporter ? they were asked.
subcommittee
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If the two Democrats on the investigative subcommittee , Reps.
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Gingrich admitted to charges, brought by an investigative subcommittee of the ethics committee, that he brought discredit to the House.
team
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The attorney-general, Marzuki Darusman, said he would immediately form an investigative team to pursue the commission's findings.
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For nearly a decade, Robert Read has headed up the show's 10-strong investigative team .
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The Sheppard investigative team believes that Marilyn, two of whose teeth were chipped, bit her assailant.
technique
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There followed a reassessment of the two principal investigative techniques .
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New investigative techniques have opened up the black box of the brain and have begun to shed light on its inner workings.
work
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It's very easy to organise some investigative work by children on school meals provision.
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He was doing investigative work on that case, too, on Kennedy.
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However, 11 different modes of assessment were noted, including mental, practical, calculator, project and investigative work .
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Algebra is given a special emphasis as well as the application of Mathematics in the form of problem-solving and investigative work .
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The team felt it important to extend the evaluation to all investigative work .
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Small group work is ideal for investigative work using any of the four paradigms of software seen above.
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Another would be to note the skills and knowledge used when pupils were engaged in problem solving or investigative work .
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A group photograph can be the starting point for further investigative work with pupils at Key Stage 1 or 2.