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The word "examination" is employed in literature to capture a range of evaluative and investigative acts, from formal assessments to intimate inquiries. In some works, it denotes an official or procedural testing process, as when a judge instructs to "speed the examination" in a legal context [1] or when academic trials are referenced as hurdles one must overcome [2], [3]. In other narratives, it suggests a detailed scrutiny of physical or conceptual subjects—whether a physician’s careful check-up [4], a scientific dissection of natural phenomena [5], or a reflective analysis of memory and ideas [6], [7]. Such varied usage underscores the term’s versatility, bridging the realms of technical rigor and metaphorical insight, and enriching the narrative by illustrating the multifaceted nature of investigation and evaluation.
  1. Now let’s go ahead quickly, speed the examination and enter the confused answer in the protocol!”
    — from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross
  2. My opinion is that it would be better to give up the thing altogether: to have no English examination, eh?"
    — from Villette by Charlotte Brontë
  3. I was up for my examination before you for the fifth time ...
    — from Project Gutenberg Compilation of Short Stories by Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
  4. The physician now arrived, and made his examination.
    — from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  5. On the fly leaf was what appeared to be a blot of ink, but on examination proved to be a line of writing almost effaced by time.
    — from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
  6. In the concluding section we shall give the principal outlines of this critical examination as far as is sufficient for our purpose.
    — from Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals by Immanuel Kant
  7. If the two elements seem irreconcileable, or at least incongruous, at first sight, the incongruity disappears on further examination.
    — from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon by J. B. Lightfoot

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