queried

past tense of query

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of queried But since March 2026, law enforcement queried him 55 times, a detail that is included in the lawsuit. — Jude Joffe-Block, NPR, 10 Sep. 2026 The Elk Grove Police Department is reviewing an audit showing outside law enforcement agencies queried the city’s license plate data more than 8 million times. — Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 2 Sep. 2026 When queried about the reasons for her breakout, Williams kept it simple. — Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 19 Aug. 2026 Retailer agents cannot be queried at scale and return almost no data to brands. — Jason Goldberg, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026 Lawmakers previously queried Airbnb and Cursor about their use of Chinese AI models. — J.d. Capelouto, semafor.com, 7 Aug. 2026 In Target, she’d be queried about where to find the Christmas decorations. — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2026 In difficult times and with commissioning opportunities dimming, this source queried whether there needs to be a festival at all. — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 28 July 2026 While the oversight board posed questions in English, the university researchers queried chatbots in different languages. — Didi Tang, Fortune, 16 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for queried
Verb
  • Undecided voters questioned the candidates about affordability, health care, data centers and privacy.
    — Christopher Harris, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2026
  • The teeth of that regulation, however, has often been questioned—when not being openly mocked.
    — Dan Bernstein, Sportico.com, 8 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • In both examples, no one is being proposed to, asked on a date, or really being asked any kind of question that would require them to respond in an immediate, public way.
    — Vanessa Bohns, Time, 6 Oct. 2026
  • View gallery - 5 images Agilink, a spin-off of Chinese robotics giant AgiBot, asked Fu Xianghong, a master of traditional Suzhou embroidery, to train its OmniHand 3 Ultra.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 6 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Intelligence officers transported him to a camp controlled by Colombia’s FARC guerrilla organization, where he was interrogated and tortured over approximately two days, according to the charges.
    — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 8 Oct. 2026
  • These and other questions proliferate as Lisbet and Mihai are interrogated by social workers and attorneys, who treat them with bureaucratic dismissiveness at best and sneering condescension at worst.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The Arkansas ban is being held up in court after CVS challenged the constitutionality of the law.
    — Blake Farmer, NPR, 5 Oct. 2026
  • The legality of these warrants are being challenged by Mountbatten-Windsor’s lawyers via judicial review, The Telegraph reported.
    — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 5 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Executives from French media and entertainment group Mediawan Group, whose production banner portfolio includes Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment, were among the people on stage getting quizzed about the impact of mega-mergers.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Barbera and his team then decided to go ahead and hold the presser after online observers blasted Venice’s hesitation to cancel it as a move to shield jury members from being quizzed about politics.
    — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 1 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • In the fourth quarter, left tackle Rashawn Slater lay for several moments on the turf and was examined by medical staff before rising to his feet and walking gingerly to the sideline with an ankle injury.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2026
  • Under D’Amaro, Disney has enacted new rounds of layoffs and examined its cost structure.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 5 Oct. 2026

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“Queried.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/queried. Accessed 11 Oct. 2026.

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