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un·der the mi·cro·scope

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  1. under the microscopeadverb

    Under close scrutiny or examination.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of under the microscope in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of under the microscope in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of under the microscope in a Sentence

  1. Holden Triplett:

    When someone like this has been arrested, any operation that they would have knowledge of immediately becomes suspect from a counterintelligence perspective, anything that they've touched is now under the microscope.

  2. Mike Thomas:

    At the end of the day, it's about the student-athlete experience, and part of that is their safety, well-being and health, and abuse is not acceptable. We hold our staff to a high standard. That line of what's acceptable and not acceptable is really under the microscope right now.

  3. Bryan Lessard:

    I'd been watching a lot of' RuPaul's Drag Race' when I was examining the specimen under the microscope, so it was on my mind ! and I really wanted to give this group of flies a memorable name because it needs the attention -- the first specimen of this RuPaul fly was collected over a hundred years ago and sat neglected in a museum collection until someone with the knowledge of that group came along to name and document them.

  4. Brandon Flowers:

    I attribute my discovery and absorption of his music with helping me become a more authentic writer, he helped me to see the extraordinary in everyday people and their lives. And in this case, it was my parents who were under the microscope. Their faith and doubts, their search for salvation in the desert. It sounds Biblical. It also sounds Springsteenian.

  5. Bruce Riedel:

    He probably focused on how badly Saudi Arabia felt because Saudi Arabia is the last thing he heard in the conversation, and The President is aware that because of the Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi incident everything that the US does with Saudi Arabia is under the microscope.

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