Postmodernist "interrogate"

[Joel S. Berson]

The [nuclear plant] engineers [after the Mineral earthquake] call the
process"interrogating" the cracks: engineers carry little loops of
wire in thicknesses from one thirty-second of an inch to one-third of
an inch to measure the cracks' width and depth.

"After Quake, Virginia Nuclear Plant Takes Stock", NYTimes, 2011
Sept. 8, A21/4 [New England edition]

Joel

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