queries 1 of 2

plural of query

queries

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of query

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of queries
Noun
The difference today is that as AI continues to get smarter, consumers no longer have to narrow their queries to a few search terms. Paulina Likos, CNBC, 4 Sep. 2026 Thanks for all the great queries, which, as usual, have been slightly modified for length and clarity. Matt Barrows, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026 The government had not yet responded to queries by the time of publication. Michelle Gumede, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026 All of Roman’s data will be made publicly available as soon as it is processed on Earth, providing a treasure trove for scientists to mine for answers to a multitude of cosmic queries. Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 30 Aug. 2026 Matching queries to documents in the same language feels sensible. Faisal Saeed, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2026 For the company, the increasingly detailed queries reinforce resale’s appeal as a hunt rather than a conventional retail browse. Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 25 Aug. 2026 Both imposter sites remain up, and one has even appeared in Google Search results for queries about GTA 6 demos. Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 25 Aug. 2026 In a statement to Semafor, Times spokesperson Graham James said the new AI tool was intended to improve reader queries. Max Tani, semafor.com, 23 Aug. 2026
Verb
If an agent queries a legacy database to decide whether to trigger an outreach sequence or prioritize an account, a flat list of static attributes is fundamentally useless to its reasoning engine. Filip Popovic, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026 Fin’s primary offering is an AI agent capable of resolving chat, email, WhatsApp, text message, phone, and Slack queries, Salesforce said. Samantha Subin, CNBC, 15 June 2026 And federal law enforcement regularly queries the FISA database for Americans' information and reviews their content. Eric McDaniel, NPR, 12 June 2026 Flay frequently answers fans’ queries about his Food Network series on social media, addressing a wide variety of topics. Erin Clements, PEOPLE, 22 May 2026 One such template application involves encrypted semantic search, which queries databases or datasets and returns relevant results based on the context or meaning of the search terms rather than keywords that match them. IEEE Spectrum, 30 Apr. 2026 Search had a strong quarter with AI experiences driving usage, queries at an all time high, and 19% revenue growth. Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 29 Apr. 2026 Simon Properties, which operates many of South Florida’s most popular malls including Dadeland, Sawgrass Mills, The Falls, Brickell City Centre and Miami International Mall didn’t respond to several Miami Herald queries about its gun policy. Michael Butler, Miami Herald, 11 Oct. 2025 With topics ranging from triple-captain dilemmas to dark-horse midfielders and how the new Defensive Contributions (DC) rule works, here are Abdul’s answers to some of the standout queries. Abdul Rehman, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for queries
Noun
  • Patrick Mahomes finished the job by scrambling up the middle, simultaneously giving the Chiefs an early lead and quieting some doubts about his reconstructed ACL and LCL.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 15 Sep. 2026
  • European leaders convene in Finland’s Arctic capital as melting ice opens new shipping lanes and resource frontiers, intensifying Russian military activity and exposing doubts about NATO’s long-term role in regional security.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Roma Daravi, a spokesperson for the Kennedy Center, did not respond to requests for comment.
    MATTHEW DALY, Arkansas Online, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Loan requests from borrowers increased 42% between the first and second quarters of 2026, with nearly 87% used for essential expenses, according to the company’s proprietary data.
    Rachel Barber, USA Today, 16 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The piece questions the company's focus on alternative earnings metrics excluding amortization and its squishy customer retention.
    Michael Santoli, CNBC, 15 Sep. 2026
  • The group questions the efficacy and safety of childhood vaccines.
    Isabella Cueto, STAT, 14 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • 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
Noun
  • Beijing assisted with a major upgrade of the base, and the United States has voiced its suspicions that China was granted special but secret privileges there.
    ABC News, ABC News, 4 Sep. 2026
  • On Wednesday, Koval released a statement on her official Instagram page, confirming suspicions that her choice to walk away from the Tigers stemmed from Mulkey acquiring 17-year-old Russian center Anna Minaeva.
    Austin Perry OutKick, FOXNews.com, 3 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Last month, his companies became the focus of two federal inquiries and a Delaware insurance regulatory review.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2026
  • Cohere received an influx of new customer inquiries after the White House in June put export controls on Anthropic’s advanced AI models.
    Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Madeline Delp plays fellow leader Kitty Cone, whose selfless compassion challenges Heumann’s radical approach to the movement.
    Glenn Garner, Deadline, 10 Sep. 2026
  • The best subplot involves a new, young part-time UPS worker who challenges the Teamster party line involving the UPS contract.
    Vikram Murthi, IndieWire, 9 Sep. 2026

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“Queries.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/queries. Accessed 18 Sep. 2026.

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