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as in questioned
to demand proof of the truth or rightness of
it seems odd that someone would want two stoves, so you'd better query that order
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as in asked
to put a question or questions to
queried the professor about the assignment
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as in interrogated
to put a series of questions to
once the statement was given, the press secretary allowed reporters to query the President
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Recent Examples of queried
He was queried about that sizable stat on a call with Wall Street after Par unveiled a hostile takeover offer for WBD.
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Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 8 Dec. 2025
Harrison Schmidt was still on the stand, prosecutors played a tape of officers asking Walshe why a device in his home would have queried how to dispose of a body.
—Colleen Cronin, Boston Herald, 4 Dec. 2025
Trump and his medical team have consistently maintained that the President is in good health but commentators have queried the veracity of that claim.
—Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Dec. 2025
Nearly two-thirds of the buyers queried have not contacted their agents since buying their homes, the company found.
—Lew Sichelman, Miami Herald, 26 Nov. 2025
This refers to Google’s ability to ensure that Gemini and other AI products depending on Google Cloud can still work well when queried by a skyrocketing number of users.
—Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 23 Nov. 2025
Immergut queried of Deputy Assistant Attorney General Eric Hamilton on Sunday.
—Callum Sutherland, Time, 6 Oct. 2025
Lack of awareness of the awards is an ongoing challenge, and awardees are under-utilized; several past awardees queried why awardees aren’t tapped to contribute to education- and STEM-related policy.
—Talia Milgrom-Elcott, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Google has released its search data on the top queried national parks of all time, and the winner comes as no surprise to us.
—Emilee Coblentz, Outside Online, 28 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for queried
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Parents have also questioned why no new security procedures have been put in place to improve locker room supervision or restrict cell phone use among the staff.—
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This defiance has rallied Danes behind her, though critics have questioned her ability to defend the homeland.—
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He was asked to be the signal-caller, and that responsibility seemed to hinder his ability to read and react.—
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At just 18 months old, he was cast as baby Toby in Jim Henson’s Labyrinth, after the filmmaker asked the Frouds, who were already working on the film, if their infant could step into the role.—
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Jorge Antonio Rodríguez died that same year after being interrogated by intelligence agents.—
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Whiteness is interrogated and Blackness is structural.—
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The Avs challenged for offsides, and the goal was taken off the board.—
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The 90-minute delay challenged everyone in the arena to find ways to kill time.—
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The Kids Baking Championship co-hosts quizzed each other on Gen Z (and Gen Alpha) slang in a funny new Food Network video.—
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The attorney general used the same tactic when Durbin quizzed her about a July memo from her department announcing no new information had been found in its Epstein files.—
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Researchers then examined liver immune cells to determine how their DNA activity was regulated and measured levels of a key receptor.—
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Papers had been presented, models dissected, scenarios examined.—
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“Queried.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/queried. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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