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investigator

/ˌɪnˈvɛstəˌɡeɪtɚ/

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What does investigator mean?

noun

  1. One who investigates.

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IPA pronunciation

/ˌɪnˈvɛstəˌɡeɪtɚ/

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At that height the thing looked like the faintest particle of dust or hair, but the shrewd old investigator was satisfied.
G. K. (Gilbert Keith) ChestertonThe innocence of Father BrownProject Gutenberg ebook #204
Few secrets can escape an investigator, who has opportunity and licence to undertake such a quest, and skill to follow it up.
Nathaniel HawthorneThe Scarlet LetterProject Gutenberg ebook #33
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Nothing is more certain, in the judgment of the present-day investigator, than that man learned to write by slow and painful stages.
Henry Smith Williams; Edward Huntington WilliamsA History of Science — Volume 1Project Gutenberg ebook #1705
The skin of the beast of prey, the speckled skin, and the dishevelled locks of the investigator, the searcher, and the conqueror!
Friedrich Wilhelm NietzscheThus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and NoneTranslated by Thomas CommonProject Gutenberg ebook #1998
One investigator shows that the diagnosis of "insanity" with later commitment to an asylum occurred in the case of a bad stutterer.
Benjamin Nathaniel BogueStammering, its cause and cureProject Gutenberg ebook #4256