the big question
noun
: the thing everyone would like to know
The big question is, will he be number one in the football draft?
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Heading into the Paris Olympics in 2024, the big question was whether athletes had learned enough from this experience to keep infection rates low.
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Outside, 28 Jan. 2026
In the United Kingdom, with Aston Villa already through, Rangers already out and Nottingham Forest almost certainly in the play-offs, the big question is whether Martin O’Neill’s Celtic can squeak through to the play-offs at home to Utrecht.
—Tim Spiers, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2026
And the big question is whether a new model can be defined in time for 2027, or whether there will be a bridge year.
—Dallas Morning News, 6 Jan. 2026
But how prices will fare in 2026 is the big question now, especially given the developments last weekend in Venezuela, one of the founding members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, or OPEC.
—Frank Witsil, Freep.com, 5 Jan. 2026
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Outside, 28 Jan. 2026
In the United Kingdom, with Aston Villa already through, Rangers already out and Nottingham Forest almost certainly in the play-offs, the big question is whether Martin O’Neill’s Celtic can squeak through to the play-offs at home to Utrecht.
—Tim Spiers, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2026
And the big question is whether a new model can be defined in time for 2027, or whether there will be a bridge year.
—Dallas Morning News, 6 Jan. 2026
But how prices will fare in 2026 is the big question now, especially given the developments last weekend in Venezuela, one of the founding members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, or OPEC.
—Frank Witsil, Freep.com, 5 Jan. 2026
See All Example Sentences for the big question
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