Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: investigations
IPA transcription: [,ɪnv,ɛstəɡ'eɪʃənz]
Pronunciations of investigations
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Usage examples
  • Tom left the hole, and continued his investigations.
  • But so far I had kept below the Fourteenth Street belt in my investigations.
  • These investigations may not prove to be much of a contribution to modern science or economics.
  • It would be a mistake, however, to omit to mention, with fitting emphasis, another result of these investigations.
  • I was feeling decidedly discouraged over our failure to make any progress with our investigations, and Bates’ news did not interest me.
  • This iron-ore concentrating project had lain close to Edison's heart and ambition--indeed, it had permeated his whole being to the exclusion of almost all other investigations or inventions for a while.
  • According to this clergyman, scientists, instead of studying the crust of the earth and making geological investigations to ascertain the probable age of the earth, ought to look at the date in the margin of the bible which tells exactly the world's age.
  • It is interesting to note that these conceptions were in Edison's mind at an early period of his investigations, when the best expert opinion was that the subdivision of the electric current was an ignis fatuus. Hence we quote the following notes he made, November 15, 1878, in one of the laboratory note-books:
  • In addition to valuable investigations of fossil-bearing beds in the Argentine, he made some excellent general suggestions, such as that the pithecoid apes, like the baboons, do not stand in the line of man's ancestral stem but represent a divergence from it away from humanity and toward a retrogressive bestialization.
  • Moreover, latest investigations have proved that the Israelites could not have crossed at the place you mention, but further north at the Bitter Lakes; a mere matter of detail, in no way affecting the extreme appositeness of your illustration, rather, adding to it; for I fear there are bitter waters ahead of you, my poor girl.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Florida Highway Patrol, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording RMS Titanic, License CC BY-SA 4.0
2. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Facebook, License CC BY-SA 4.0
3. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power, License CC BY-SA 4.0
4. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Subarachnoid hemorrhage, License CC BY-SA 4.0
5. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Schizophrenia, License CC BY-SA 4.0
6. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Ayn Rand, License CC BY-SA 4.0
7. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Hillary Clinton, License CC BY-SA 4.0
8. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Mu (lost continent), License CC BY-SA 4.0
9. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Thomas Pynchon, License CC BY-SA 4.0