investigative

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involving examining facts, events, problems, crimes, etc. in order to know more about them or to discover the truth, or doing work like this :

Children are encouraged to take an investigative approach to learning.

The newspaper's investigative team would work for months on a single article.

intended to examine something carefully, esp. to discover the truth about it:

an investigative panel

He's one of the paper's strongest investigative reporters (= someone whose job is gathering facts to be published).

relating to the discovery of information about something, especially something that may be illegal:

Allowing a trade association representative to have access to the investigative information would be problematic.

The Attorney General announced an investigative inquiry into the organization.

an investigative agency/body/committee