inspecting

verb

present participle of inspect
as in examining
to look over closely (as for judging quality or condition) inspected the collie before the dog show

Synonyms & Similar Words

Relevance

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

Example Sentences

Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to show current usage. Read More Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
Recent Examples of inspecting After inspecting her home and speaking with Hamann's other children, state social workers closed her case. — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 9 Aug. 2026 Kim Won Jin / AFP via Getty Images Another article recalled Kim visiting a pickled seafood factory at the time amid soaring temperatures, portraying him inspecting sweltering fermentation rooms while stressing food quality and hygiene. — Reuters, NBC news, 7 Aug. 2026 Local tax bureaus in Shanghai, Shenzhen and Jiangsu had begun inspecting offshore trusts and applying 20% levies in select cases even before the national rules were released. — Anniek Bao,lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 5 Aug. 2026 Under the warrant, county officials were also inspecting the property to determine whether the foundation was in compliance with building and land use codes and regulations. — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2026 Weekly Gonzalez suggests inspecting the shower drain as part of your weekly bathroom cleaning routine. — Maria Sabella, The Spruce, 4 Aug. 2026 Ukrainian analysts first identified this capability after inspecting a downed Gerbera and observing mounting brackets for FPV drones. — Vikram Mittal, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026 After inspecting metal fragments found among the trees near the city of Świnoujście, historians say the area may hide further remains of an Allied airplane crash from World War II. — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 23 July 2026 Because these plants often sit on store shelves longer or are already under stress, Ginsburg recommends inspecting them carefully for pests or signs of disease. — Colleen Sullivan, Martha Stewart, 21 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inspecting
  1. examining
  2. reviewing
  3. scanning
  4. surveying
Verb
  • Reuters reported the same day that lawyers are examining who could bear responsibility when autonomous AI systems access computer systems without authorization.
    — Ron Schmelzer, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
  • The film captures the friction between tennis snobs and the more democratic pickleballers while examining father-son relationships and intergenerational friendships.
    — Christine Ledbetter, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of examining
Verb
  • When reviewing salary ranges, look beyond whether the pay meets your expectations.
    — Sho Dewan, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2026
  • After reviewing its records in light of OpenAI’s announcement, the company found that its own frontier models had broken into three outside companies months earlier after a contractor accidentally connected a testing environment to the internet.
    — Andrew Freedman, Fortune, 8 Aug. 2026
Definition of reviewing
Verb
  • Worse, because the attacker now has data on email threads or company projects in progress, the phishing attack is even harder for a busy staffer (or executive) to flag as suspicious while scanning their inbox.
    — Alan Henry, PC Magazine, 7 Aug. 2026
  • There are scanning systems, raster scanning systems, and there are spinning mirrors, and there are micro—there are MEMS devices.
    — Joel Feder, The Drive, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of scanning
Verb
  • Rolling out of the pocket and surveying the field for receivers, Marr got tangled up by her own ankles.
    — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 5 Aug. 2026
  • For example, in Argentina’s lithium-rich Jujuy Province, a research exchange between the two countries’ geological agencies grew into an explicit state partnership focused on surveying the province’s salt flats.
    — Natalia Cote-Muñoz, Foreign Affairs, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of surveying

Browse Nearby Words

inspected
inspecting
inspection
See all Nearby Words

Cite this Entry

“Inspecting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inspecting. Accessed 14 Aug. 2026.

Copy Citation

More from Merriam-Webster on inspecting

Nglish: Translation of inspecting for Spanish Speakers

Last Updated: - Updated example sentences
Love words? Need even more definitions?

Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!

More from Merriam-Webster

Word of the Day

Listen to the pronunciation of vacuous

See Definitions and Examples »

Popular in Grammar & Usage

See More

A Who’s Who Regarding ‘Who’s’ and ‘Whose’

7 Pairs of Commonly Confused Words

Is that lie 'bald-faced' or 'bold-faced'?

'A' or 'an'? What about before 'h'? An Indefinite Article Guide

Why is '-ed' sometimes pronounced at the end of a word?
See More

Popular in Wordplay

See More

Words from the 'Odyssey'

The Longest Long Words List

It's a Scorcher! Words for the Summer Heat

The Words of the Week - Aug. 14

12 Lovely and Unusual Words for the Natural World
See More

Popular

See More

A Who’s Who Regarding ‘Who’s’ and ‘Whose’

Words from the 'Odyssey'

The Longest Long Words List
See More

Games & Quizzes

See All
Play Quordle: Guess all four words in a limited number of tries. Each of your guesses must be a real 5-letter word.
Quordle Can you solve 4 words at once?
Play Blossom: Solve today's spelling word game by finding as many words as you can using just 7 letters. Longer words score more points.
Blossom Pick the best words!
Play Missing Letter: a crossword with a twist. Each of the 25 puzzle words start with a different letter of the alphabet. Which letter is missing?
The Missing Letter A daily crossword with a twist
image of a green cube out of place in a lineup of red spheres
Odd Word Out: Synonyms Vol. 2 Quiz Figure out which word isn't like the others.
See All