open question
noun
: a matter or problem that is being discussed but to which the answer is not yet known
Whether voters will support him remains an open question.
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Whether Washington wants to make the playoffs or retain a lottery pick is an open question, but now that the Mystics control Seattle’s first-rounder (via the Sykes trade), a win Sunday could improve the Storm pick by knocking it into the lottery.
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Sabreena Merchant, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2025
Its legality is an open question before the Supreme Court.
—Hansi Lo Wang, NPR, 7 Aug. 2025
But whether the buttoned-up or conciliatory responses are the right tack is still an open question.
—Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2025
The best method for tuning agentic AI models to tackle complicated or niche use cases—whether through human feedback, synthetic data, some combination, or new techniques yet to be discovered—remains an open question.
—IEEE Spectrum, 1 Aug. 2025
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Sabreena Merchant, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2025
Its legality is an open question before the Supreme Court.
—Hansi Lo Wang, NPR, 7 Aug. 2025
But whether the buttoned-up or conciliatory responses are the right tack is still an open question.
—Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2025
The best method for tuning agentic AI models to tackle complicated or niche use cases—whether through human feedback, synthetic data, some combination, or new techniques yet to be discovered—remains an open question.
—IEEE Spectrum, 1 Aug. 2025
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“Open question.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/open%20question. Accessed 3 Sep. 2025.
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