1
as in questioning
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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2
as in asking
to put a question or questions to
queried the professor about the assignment
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as in interrogating
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 querying
These systems are already querying databases, drafting legal language, generating procurement recommendations, managing infrastructure workflows and interacting directly with customers.
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Emil Sayegh,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
Officials believe these operations involve querying advanced AI systems repeatedly.
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Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
23 Apr. 2026
Reports of the court's concern were cited by privacy advocates and some congressional aides as a reason Congress should not reauthorize the law without changes and without the administration explaining the querying filter issue.
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Arkansas Online,
12 Apr. 2026
Instead of flooding analysts with thousands of warnings, the agents gather evidence in real time—querying threat-intelligence databases, analyzing behavioral patterns, and filtering out false positives—before deciding whether a situation warrants escalation.
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Sharon Goldman,
Fortune,
23 Feb. 2026
The company helps its clients connect their data with AI models to launch custom agents, in addition to providing tools for storing, processing and querying data.
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Jordan Novet,
CNBC,
9 Feb. 2026
People who are obsessed with querying to the point of ignoring the actual work aren’t going to produce anything of value.
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Literary Hub,
29 Jan. 2026
The chips will primarily be used for inferencing, a kind of querying of a large language model so a chatbot can generate an answer.
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Manal Albarakati,
semafor.com,
29 Oct. 2025
Mahan’s budget team also used AI to spot spending and revenue trends and provide insight by querying past financial records.
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Devan Patel,
Mercury News,
18 Oct. 2025
Emil Sayegh,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
Officials believe these operations involve querying advanced AI systems repeatedly.
—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
23 Apr. 2026
Reports of the court's concern were cited by privacy advocates and some congressional aides as a reason Congress should not reauthorize the law without changes and without the administration explaining the querying filter issue.
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Arkansas Online,
12 Apr. 2026
Instead of flooding analysts with thousands of warnings, the agents gather evidence in real time—querying threat-intelligence databases, analyzing behavioral patterns, and filtering out false positives—before deciding whether a situation warrants escalation.
—
Sharon Goldman,
Fortune,
23 Feb. 2026
The company helps its clients connect their data with AI models to launch custom agents, in addition to providing tools for storing, processing and querying data.
—
Jordan Novet,
CNBC,
9 Feb. 2026
People who are obsessed with querying to the point of ignoring the actual work aren’t going to produce anything of value.
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Literary Hub,
29 Jan. 2026
The chips will primarily be used for inferencing, a kind of querying of a large language model so a chatbot can generate an answer.
—
Manal Albarakati,
semafor.com,
29 Oct. 2025
Mahan’s budget team also used AI to spot spending and revenue trends and provide insight by querying past financial records.
—
Devan Patel,
Mercury News,
18 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for querying
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Conservative critics seized upon those allegations, accusing Hosseini of exerting outsized influence over UF’s presidential search process and questioning whether trustees had exercised independent judgment in selecting Bell.
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What immediately followed that bright June day were dark months marred by the state’s largest criminal investigation in history coming up empty, police questioning second graders for new leads and mounting legal battles among the Horman family grappling with utter devastation.
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The warning came after a key naval information group had proposed alternative shipping corridors on Saturday, asking shipowners to consider transiting the strait along the southern route with their transponder signals on.
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The luxury market typically tops out in the $30-million to $40-million range in Orange County, though some properties are aiming higher, including a San Juan Capistrano ranch asking $85 million and an 11,500-square-foot mansion in Newport Coast listed for $68 million.
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Investigators sat across from nearly every young child at Skyline – many of whose nascent, swinging legs could not yet reach the ground from their chairs – interrogating them over their missing classmate.
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New York police executing a search warrant raided an LGBTQ+ bar called the Stonewall Inn, and some of the patrons resisted as officers continued interrogating them and bar employees.
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Are the needs of another challenging your emotional state?
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Amid a challenging macroeconomic climate, American design furniture conglomerate MillerKnoll swung to a positive net earnings position in its fiscal fourth quarter.
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The Tennessee Titans went back to the streets quizzing random people in their schedule reveal in a twist to the team’s 2023 schedule reveal.
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The talk was impassioned and wide-ranging, with Wood, a longtime del Toro interlocutor, quizzing the filmmaker on everything from his childhood in Guadalajara, Mexico, to his passion for design and scrapbooking.
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During the quantum program, Dash worked with Flores and another member of the cohort to develop a project examining how quantum computing could be used to detect the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease.
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Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus Start by examining the leaves.
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Unless his future is resolved before then, the Egypt captain could find himself in the unusual position of contesting a World Cup knockout match without being tied to any club.
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Regulators are now writing rules for a sanctioned technology rather than contesting whether it should be permitted at all.
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The government is appealing that decision, disputing that Parias was deprived of access to counsel.
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Daveigh Chase‘s former manager and longtime friend John Ryan is disputing claims made on a GoFundMe page by the late Lilo & Stitch actress’ boyfriend.
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“Querying.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/querying. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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