close scrutiny
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcloseandscrutiny
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close
adjective
uk/kləʊs/us/kloʊs/
having direct family connections or shared beliefs, support, ...
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scrutiny
noun[U]
uk/ˈskruː.tɪ.ni/us/ˈskruː.t̬ən.i/
the careful and detailed examination of something in order to get information ...
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(Definition ofcloseandscrutinyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofclose scrutiny
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While there have been many studies of the race to determine longitude, advertisements have not receivedclosescrutiny.
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Another corresponding field of authority and power given equallyclosescrutinyis that of the armed forces.
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On the face of things, any discrimination, be it gender-, nationality-, age- or seniority-based deservesclosescrutiny.
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Thus,closescrutinyvia utilization review and physician profiling is standard practice.
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In our opinion, there is much potential benefit to be derived fromclosescrutinyof these exceptional encounters.
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It is quite clear that many of these do not stand up toclosescrutiny.
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However, the amount of lexical data covered by 'linguistic historians ' is often so vast as to makeclosescrutinyof all their lexical evidence quasiimpossible.
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The point is only that many of the arguments that are commonly advanced against their possibility do not hold up well underclosescrutiny.
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Consequently, they do not stand up toclosescrutiny.
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A work of this magnitude invitesclosescrutiny.
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I argue here that, for all its appeal, this narrative simply doesn't hold up as history underclosescrutiny.
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Uponclosescrutiny, however, nothing of that kind is to be found on the sites or among the fossils.
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In the rest of this section we address a number of prima facie counterexamples, none of which stands up toclosescrutiny.
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While there have been many studies addressing numerous aspects of the quest to determine longitude accurately, these advertisements have not receivedclosescrutiny.
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Obviously,closescrutinyis required in transcribing the videotaped utterances, because we are dealing with extremely subtle distinctions here.
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Once again,closescrutinyof consumption ' periodicities ' is crucial.
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No one had discovered the trick of the automaton, even afterclosescrutiny.
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First, its biblical roots came underclosescrutiny.
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Most chapters give a demonstration of the usefulness of aclosescrutinyof the production details of media products.
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The place of an unelected second chamber in a modern democracy is currently receivingclosescrutinyand change is under way.
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