as in asks
to put a question or questions to
casually inquired of the neighbors the identity of the house's previous owner
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Also, as Kreuz rightly asks, how many words?—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
22 Mar. 2026 -
His family asks that their privacy be respected.—
Jonathan Limehouse,
USA Today,
21 Mar. 2026
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Family questions police response Sye's other sister told CBS New Baltimore that the officers were too aggressive in their response.—
Adam Thompson,
CBS News,
24 Mar. 2026
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Susan Hildreth, who led the agency from 2011 to 2015, questions the lack of information about the current process on the agency’s website.—
ProPublica,
ProPublica,
24 Mar. 2026
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Longtime Univision news anchor Jorge Ramos and his daughter Paola Ramos — a journalist whose latest book interrogates the rise of the Latino far right — are moderating the conversation at Miami’s Adrienne Arsht Center.—
Claire Heddles,
Miami Herald,
12 Mar. 2026
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Ian Cheney’s brisk but sprawling doc interrogates the origins of the dish, who invented it, how it got popularized, and the eponymous 19th-century military leader who may (or may not) have inspired it.—
Declan Gallagher,
Entertainment Weekly,
12 Mar. 2026
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“Inquires (of).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inquires%20%28of%29. Accessed 27 Mar. 2026.
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