ASKS Synonyms: 72 Similar and Opposite Words

asks

verb

present tense third-person singular of ask

as in interrogates

to put a question or questions to my coworkers asked me all about my trip to Machu Picchu

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as in requests

to make a request of ask the salesclerk for assistance

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as in charges

to set or receive as a price they are only asking $300 for that antique grandfather clock

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as in invites

to request the presence or participation of a fixture on the party circuit, that couple is always asking people over for dinner

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Recent Examples of asks And no city asks an LLM every few seconds whether a traffic light should turn green. — Nitin Gupta, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026 Neptune retrograde in Aries, for instance, asks us to question everything from our levels of assertion to our individual freedom. — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2026 The Coast Guard asks anyone with information about Pawlowski to call the Miami command center at 305-535-4372. — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 15 Sep. 2026 Its greatest weakness may emerge at the boundary where someone asks whether the system is solving the right problem. — Julio Ottino, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2026 The states’ lawsuit, filed Monday morning in the Southern District of New York, does not seek monetary damages from the federal government, but rather asks the court to block the rule, invalidate it and prevent DHS from using it. — Gloria Pazmino, CNN Money, 14 Sep. 2026 The visitor sits in front of the typewriter and asks the question. — James Folta, Literary Hub, 14 Sep. 2026 In a city where everything can feel fleeting, Kiko Kostadinov has created something that asks you to linger long enough for a memory to form — and perhaps, eventually, become part of the next collection. — Michael Anthony Hall, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2026 The woman at the table asks her for Margaret's identification number. — Nicole Avery Nichols, Freep.com, 11 Sep. 2026

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One day scholars will teach Lepore’s work alongside Arendt’s, seeing that Lepore interrogates not simply a modern moment, but traces our current machine age back to the 17th-century conceit for artifice as improvement.

— Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2026
Writer-director Ari Aster interrogates not just the social and political turmoil of COVID-19, but also the way social media can exacerbate that unraveling of collective neuroses.

— Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 15 July 2026

Definition of interrogates

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His father begs him to stop work, wondering why filming a story about the closure of bakeries in Jabalia for consumption by outlets like the UK’s Channel 4 is worth risking losing his only son.

— Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2026
But this begs the parallel question of what the current museum architecture arises from and reflects, and why the oceanic and the oligarchic logics of the museum’s reformation now travel together here.

— George Baker, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of begs

Verb

In a college football universe that demands increasing buy-in from donors to remain competitive, these are the series that ultimately matter to consumers.

— Scott Dochterman, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026
There is patience in that process, particularly in a fashion cycle that often demands immediate answers.

— Michael Anthony Hall, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2026