suspicious.j

WordNet N/A and FrameNet 8225 [Hide]

• Khalid al Mihdhar and Salem al Hazmi presented passports with a suspicious indicator of Islamic extremism. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• The LAT is alone in quoting a Moscow military analyst who thinks "the initiative is slipping from the hands of the worn-out military and into the hands of the Chechen rebels"; and in citing another analyst who thought it suspicious that Putin removed two of his most ardent supporters, also two of Russia's most popular generals. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• The numbers certainly make the Noe deaths suspicious. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• The Washington Post leads with Washington, D.C., officials' decision to reopen two homicide cases and their pledge to revamp the city's supervision of 150 group homes for the mentally disabled, all in response to a Sunday Post story revealing that in the nation's capital, officials routinely don't investigate the suspicious deaths of retarded people. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• On January 14, the head of the CIA's al Qaeda unit again updated his bosses, telling them that officials were continuing to track the suspicious individuals who had now dispersed to various countries. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• But nowadays talking about those scandals reminds people less of the Clintons' suspicious behavior than of the GOP's impeachment jihad. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• Eight deaths in one family was highly suspicious, and Noe was the only person present when each of the children died. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• State Department sources even saw suspicious links with Omar Abdel Rahman, the "Blind Sheikh" in the New York area, commenting that Bin Ladin seemed "committed to financing 'Jihads' against 'anti Islamic' regimes worldwide." [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,W₅,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• Nevertheless, FBI information since that time indicates patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks, including recent surveillance of federal buildings in New York. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• The flight had taken off just as American 11 was being hijacked, and at 8:42 the United 175 flight crew completed their report on a "suspicious transmission" overheard from another plane (which turned out to have been Flight 11) just after takeoff. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,W₅,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• For example, the volume of put options- investments that pay off only when a stock drops in price-surged in the parent companies of United Airlines on September 6 and American Airlines on September 10-highly suspicious trading on its face. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• For instance, a prayer being said after the plane began plummeting so fast that passengers were rendered weightless would not be suspicious. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• FBI letterhead memorandum, Zacarias Moussaoui, Aug. 21, 2001; CIA cable, subjects involved in suspicious 747 flight training, Aug. 24, 2001; CIA cable, "Zacarias Moussaoui and Husayn 'Ali Hasan Ali-Attas,"Aug. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,W₅,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• You know, the last few years I keep reading reports about all the controversial "profiling" they are doing at airports, trying to predict the behavior of suspicious ticket holders. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• Thank heaven for Beth Sherman (same initials as Buffy Shutt: suspicious?) [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,W₅,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• It also meant that there was a link between Khallad and Mihdhar, making Mihdhar seem even more suspicious. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• Both cranio-caudal views of the mammogram were obtained from the mammography clinics after the radiologic evaluation had been completed and any malignancy or suspicious lesions ruled out. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• The Arab world's reaction to Barak's victory was generally suspicious. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,W₅,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• But that word "first" stamps the poem with a lovely air of aroused virginity, not one of suspicious belatedness. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,W₅,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• Thus you should always look for someone who's just guarding a patch of the court, standing around looking suspicious. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• A neighbor might call the police to report the suspicious visitors. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,W₅,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• Kincaid's eccentric combination of suspicious narrative analysis and self-help, can-do enthusiasm may be just the Dale Carnegie twist these old ideas need. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,W₅,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• um in my case they didn't follow me in the bathroom but apparently they were following you know the more suspicious types into the bathroom [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,W₅,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• well uh they they said that i it was suspicious behavior and i looked at you know the highway patrol and i said how could it be suspicious behavior of me [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,W₅,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• And the state can exhume a body when it deems a death suspicious and improperly investigated. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• It is not surprising or intrinsically suspicious then, that Currie, who has a reputation for looking out for White House interns with whom she has no personal connection, would have been helpful and friendly to Monica. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• But does anyone else find it suspicious that on what will undoubtedly be one of the most important political days of their lives, so many of them were unreachable? [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,W₅,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• If there is ever to be one, it will have to resemble this treaty at least broadly: surprise inspections of suspicious sites, the economic and moral ostracism of nations that don't cooperate, etc. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,W₅,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• President Clinton's 2001 budget will seek $10 million for the FDA to hire staff and buy technology that will pick out suspicious online prescription drug sellers. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• I took in as we met him that he appeared neither suspicious nor blank; he simply stood there, as he stood always everywhere, for the principal feature of the scene. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,W₅,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• They're not just applied to suspicious passengers. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• The report asked recipients to"exercise extreme vigilance" and "report suspicious activities" to the FBI. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• The FAA interviewed the screeners later; none recalled anything unusual or suspicious. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• None of the checkpoint supervisors recalled the hijackers or reported anything suspicious regarding their screening. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,W₅,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• There are other, less dramatic, examples; surely David Kaczynski's decision to alert the FBI to his brother's suspicious activities was the right choice. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,W₅,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• These investigators have found that the apparently suspicious consistently proved innocuous. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• uh suspicious [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• One caveat: never assume blithely that an odd word or suspicious phrase is as lubricious as it sounds. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,W₅,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• Listed here, it all seems transparently bogus or at least deeply suspicious. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• It doesn't end there: The WSJ reports that Swiss authorities are investigating suspicious BoNY accounts held by the husband of Tatyana Dyachenko, Boris Yeltsin's daughter and political confidant. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• Contrary to persistent media reports, no financial institution filed a Suspicious Activity Report (SAR)-which U.S. law requires banks to file within 30 days of a suspicious transaction-with respect to any transaction of any of 19 hijackers before 9/11. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• The North accused the South of sabotage; the South denied it, but North Korean vets still searched the cattle carcasses for suspicious viruses and electronic devices. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,W₅,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• Reagan National controllers then vectored an unarmed National Guard C- 130H cargo aircraft, which had just taken off en route to Minnesota, to identify and follow the suspicious aircraft. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,W₅,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• He did so because one of the brothers did not have photo identification nor could he understand English, and because the agent found both of the passengers to be suspicious. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• The paper, which has run many front-page stories in the past year suggesting that China did indeed steal U.S. nuclear secrets, often detailing suspicious behavior of Lee, puts this one inside. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• Tell me that's not suspicious ." Santa needs a makeover. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• A front-page LAT piece on the alleged Bank of New York money-laundering scandal argues that much of the suspicious Russian money is owned by legitimate Russian businessmen who simply do not trust Russian banks or wish to avoid paying excessive taxes to a corrupt government. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,W₅,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• Specifically, to prepare the office in case suspicious materials are received, the senior executive reviewed and updated its emergency evacuation plan and then met with employees to ensure they understood the plan's procedures and were comfortable with their responsibilities. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,F₁,I₁]: 1.00

WordNet N/A and FrameNet 16033 [Hide]

• I admit to having been suspicious of Kowloon Tong , a novel prepared for an event rather than responding to it. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• Clark's peers are suspicious of his pedigreed background and political connections; worse, NATO's half-hearted military strategy smells to them of another Vietnam. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• The policy was overly suspicious and vituperative, but it also cultivated a sense of common purpose and team loyalty. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• He has been suspicious of her since she began to show signs of what he was convinced was a male mind. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• Graders became suspicious that students were sharing answers via e-mail and using the World Wide Web to search for information when they noticed similarities in the students' work--some to the point of being identical. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• If the final plan involves significant, unspecified cuts in real discretionary spending--and if most of those cuts occur in 2001 and 2002, when Bill Clinton will be a man of leisure--we should all be suspicious. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• He said the reason for the continued correspondence was that if he stopped writing I might get suspicious. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,W₅,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• The shogunate, always suspicious of people on the move, maintained a system of garrisons along the road, and no one went through without an official pass. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,W₅,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• But we have seen grounds to be deeply suspicious of the claim that we can finitely prestate all possible exaptations  whether they be new organic functionalities or new goods  that arise in a biosphere or an econosphere, such as Gertrude learning to fly in her terrified leap from the pine tree million years ago last Friday or the engineers working on the tractor suddenly realizing that the engine block itself could serve as the chassis. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• The Phoenix FBI office remains suspicious of Abdullah and Hazmi and their association with Hanjour. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• More than that, they're inherently suspicious of one another: They see through their buddys' superheroic poses--and their own. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• The piece finds the Supreme Court justice bitter at his lot and deeply suspicious of the white world. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• She also says 1) Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr was just doing his job; 2) she felt maternal sympathy for Lewinsky; and 3) the grand jurors were suspicious of Linda Tripp and annoyed by her "self-righteousness." [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• Kutchins and Kirk like to refer to the DSM as "psychiatry's bible," implying that it inspires reverence and is in need of suspicious interpretation, but the DSM is better described as psychiatry's dictionary. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• I was touched by these kindnesses, but also suspicious: Why were they doing this? [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,W₅,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• He was a party man and he had sort of a florid face and I, it made me a little suspicious. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,W₅,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• Hard-liners, suspicious of U.S. ideological influence, asserted themselves in March 1996, when missile tests in the Straits of Taiwan were timed to intimidate Taiwan's politicians and electorate as the country held its first direct elections to the presidency. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• Its mockumentary premise: Three young filmmakers disappear while trekking through the woods of Maryland in search of a local witch; a year later, their footage is found and presented as The Blair Witch Project . The trio get increasingly suspicious of each other as they hear eerie sounds in the night and find mysterious bundles of sticks hanging from trees, and by the end they're running for their lives. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• Claiming to have been suspicious of the entire transaction, the administrator distanced himself from Hazmi and Mihdhar, but not before they had received the assistance they needed. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• Brandon's acquaintances become suspicious of his gender, and John and Tom become hostile toward him. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• The NYT , ever suspicious of the president's motivations, goes out of its way to report that White House aides "expected Clinton's announcement to draw concentrated news coverage and commentary to compete with lingering musings over the trial"; the WP , playing the story just below its one-column lead, details the complex and delicate planned mobilizations and postings of the multinational troops. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• So when I see an entry in shtuk/shtook/stook/schtuk labeled “British” in Thorne's book, I at once get suspicious, especially when it is defined as `in trouble,' shtuk “in its various spellings” is described as Yiddish for `difficulties,' and there is a (good) entry for shtick , besides. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• Mary was next in line for the English crown, and Elizabeth was suspicious of her intentions. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• I was, for one thing, suspicious of the media hype--to which we are now, of course, contributing--around these books, and I still dread the eventual movies and the inevitable merchandising frenzy that will follow. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,W₅,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• Noting that the Indonesian military is "very suspicious" about Australia's motivation in East Timor (believing it may have as much to do with Prime Minister John Howard's popularity at home as with humanitarian concerns), Jemadu asked, "Does Australia have a strategic agenda which might strengthen its bargaining position vis-a-vis its closest northern neighbor? [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• I first got suspicious about Furbys when I read their online instructions, which sounded like an excerpt from a pornographic version of G.B. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• Locals are said to be increasingly suspicious of the refusal of the girl's parents to be interviewed separately by police. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• And I only praised Giuliani's press strategy for instilling the kind of staff loyalty that Al Gore so desperately needs; I duly noted that it's "overly suspicious and vituperative." [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• Only one thing made me a little suspicious when cranking up the system: in the descriptive text that appears on the screen, the word labeled is spelt “labelled”--decidedly unAmerican. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• Perhaps the ingestion of too much corporate PR has made us all suspicious. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• The anachronistic colloquial expressions ("bedding down," "a little snow," "shit, man"), the insertion of gratuitous detail ("his TR-6 convertible sports car," "one point four-five million dollars"), and the utterly non-conversational tone ("raised almost a staggering sixty million dollars") all make me suspicious. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,W₅,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• Only one thing made me a little suspicious when cranking up the system: in the descriptive text that appears on the screen, the word labeled is spelt “labelled”—decidedly un-American. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,W₅,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• A week later, Dan Rather observed that Clinton's verbal gymnastics about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky ("It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is") had made people suspicious of how Clinton was "parsing" his words about Kosovo. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,W₅,F₁,I₁]: 1.00

WordNet N/A and FrameNet 16025 [Hide]

• They also caught it from some abortion-rights zealots, who are suspicious of any government efforts to influence reproductive choices, and from conservatives, who think the only proper way to discourage teen pregnancy is to preach abstinence. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• "Nixon, though always suspicious of his political enemies, consistently underestimated their ruthlessness and willingness to sacrifice the national interest in the pursuit of their institutional vendetta." [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,W₅,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• As long as psychiatry is in the business of forced institutionalization (and it still is, though less so than in the '60s), it seems clear that the diagnoses that license dragging people off the street can hardly be subject to enough old-fashioned suspicious scrutiny. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• The operative likely intended to round out the team for this flight, Mohamed al Kahtani, had been refused entry by a suspicious immigration inspector at Florida's Orlando International Airport in August. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,W₅,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• King George III and his ministers were actually just blundering their way through the tricky business of running a trans-Atlantic empire, but suspicious Americans viewed each restriction of their rights--the Stamp Act, the Tea Act, and so on--as part of a scheme to reduce them to slavery. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• If Gore had called Quayle a "fool," Gore would have looked mean, and swing voters, being suspicious, would have doubted the charge. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,W₅,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• That is, he remembered he was entrusted by the Big Humpback Himself to bring in the suspicious Oedipa for testing. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• Going national had its own good reasons, but were Jews being overly suspicious in thinking that one reason, which they did not think was so good, was to recruit from areas in which fewer Jews lived? [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,W₅,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• especially if you have an interest group that comes up with a study that supports their own position if they did the work i always tend to be a little suspicious of it and that might've been the Southern Poverty Law Project or something that did that [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,W₅,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• Meanwhile, her suspicious fiance has apparently been furiously searching for her for much of the night. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,W₅,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• Why did the equally conservative Richard Gid Powers call Heilbrunn's accusations against Yale "absurd" and existing "only in the minds of the pathologically suspicious" on the same page? [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• Such techniques, often referred to as "social engineering," exploit users' tendencies to be cooperative and helpful, instead of guarded, careful, and suspicious, when information is requested. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• Morris' commission alone amounts to more than all the money Democrats have had to give back to suspicious contributors. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,W₅,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• As those who use infer for imply might be somehow stigmatized in (some) educated circles, failure to report such a usage leaves the suspicious user of a dictionary (or grammar) who has the wit to look it up facing a serious lacuna in the information given about the language. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,F₁,I₁]: 1.00
• Such techniques, often referred to as "social engineering," exploit users' tendencies to be cooperative and helpful, instead of guarded, careful, and suspicious, when information is requested. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,F₁,I₁]: 1.00

WordNet N/A and FrameNet N/A [Hide]

• Reye syndrome, a disorder of unknown cause, is characterized by acute encephalopathy and fatty degeneration of the liver and it is usually characterized by a history of preceding viral illness or the use of aspirin during viral infections [ 10 ] . Many children with metabolic disorders present with Reye-like syndrome episodes, usually at a young age and/or with a positive past or family history suspicious for an inborn error of metabolism [ 11 ] . It has been reported as a presenting sign of type I 3-MGC aciduria and in a few cases of mitochondrial cytopathies in older children [ 12 13 ] . However in the neonatal period, a Reye-like episode is not a typical presenting feature of a mitochondrial cytopathy. [W₁,W₂,W₃,W₄,I₁]: 1.00
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