"scrutinise" meaning in English

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          "text": "Because his opinions are all over the place, they find it easy to scrutinise them and lay them out;",
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          "ref": "2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:",
          "text": "Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.",
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          "ref": "2020 June 3, Lilian Greenwood talks to Paul Stephen, “Rail's 'underlying challenges' remain”, in RAIL, page 31:",
          "text": "But few MPs could claim to have followed and scrutinised Government transport policy to the extent that she has over the past decade.",
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          "ref": "2022 August 10, Mel Holley, “Network News: Question marks over TransPennine upgrade spending”, in RAIL, number 963, page 24:",
          "text": "Independent of government and the civil service, the NAO [National Audit Office] scrutinises public spending for Parliament and helps it to hold government to account.",
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        "To examine something with great care."
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        "(transitive) To examine something with great care."
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        "To audit accounts etc in order to verify them."
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        "(transitive) To audit accounts etc in order to verify them."
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