open to question
idiom
: not known for sure : uncertain
Her intentions are open to question.
The author's exact meaning is open to question.
Examples of open to question in a Sentence
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Whether such logic, and such a tranquil plea for moral decency, will lay the rumors to rest, and shame the rancorous, is open to question.
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Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2024
But the gesture’s sincerity was open to question, because Mobutu himself helped ensure Lumumba’s death, ordering him to be flown handcuffed to a secessionist province where he was shot by firing squad, his body then dismembered and dissolved in acid.
—Michela Wrong, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2023
Whether there is still a place for the steady intellectual grind is open to question.
—Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
Yet how much core GOP voters are willing to listen to Christie is open to question.
—John McCormick, WSJ, 24 Aug. 2023
Under these circumstances, an American commitment to fight for Ukraine would be open to question.
—Justin Logan and Joshua Shifrinson, Foreign Affairs, 7 July 2023
Quite why this is happening is open to question: the World Cup, doubtless, has something to do with it.
—Rory Smith, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2023
Certain things just seemed intuitively true, no longer open to question.
—Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Nov. 2022
All of those claims -- and more -- were now open to question.
—oregonlive, 5 May 2021
Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2024
But the gesture’s sincerity was open to question, because Mobutu himself helped ensure Lumumba’s death, ordering him to be flown handcuffed to a secessionist province where he was shot by firing squad, his body then dismembered and dissolved in acid.
—Michela Wrong, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2023
Whether there is still a place for the steady intellectual grind is open to question.
—Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
Yet how much core GOP voters are willing to listen to Christie is open to question.
—John McCormick, WSJ, 24 Aug. 2023
Under these circumstances, an American commitment to fight for Ukraine would be open to question.
—Justin Logan and Joshua Shifrinson, Foreign Affairs, 7 July 2023
Quite why this is happening is open to question: the World Cup, doubtless, has something to do with it.
—Rory Smith, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2023
Certain things just seemed intuitively true, no longer open to question.
—Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Nov. 2022
All of those claims -- and more -- were now open to question.
—oregonlive, 5 May 2021
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