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inspecting

noun B2
  1. An act of inspection.

Plural inspectings

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We found three or four grooms and idlers standing in the drive inspecting a bicycle which had been drawn out from a clump of evergreens in which it had been concealed.
The Valley of Fear, p. 46 · C1
I ain’t afeared of anything on this side o’ the grave; but I thought that maybe it was him that died o’ the typhoid inspecting the drains what killed him.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 42 · B2

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