querying

present participle of query

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of querying When querying luxury shoppers in July, Essner said tariffs were not hitting in a big way. David Moin, Footwear News, 9 Sep. 2025 The integration of pg_vector extension enables storing and querying millions of vectors with millisecond response times, supporting real-time AI applications that process unstructured data alongside traditional business records. Janakiram Msv, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025 Land constraints aren’t going away, building and querying AI models is becoming cheaper and technologies continue to innovate. Tina Li, Sacbee.com, 5 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for querying
Verb
  • The club’s former general manager Pierpaolo Marino then poured fuel on the fire by questioning whether Scott McTominay should have been pushed out to the left of midfield to make way for summer arrival De Bruyne.
    Tim Spiers, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • He also was sought for questioning in a child abuse case, Ferrell said.
    Jade Jackson, IndyStar, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Confident in his abilities and comfortable with awkward silence, Counsell is constantly asking questions and gathering information.
    Patrick Mooney, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Many of the major talent agencies across New York and Los Angeles, including the likes of CAA, WME and UTA, were hit with a letter Tuesday asking agents and their clients to boycott the Surrey Hotel in New York City, at least for now.
    Katie Campione, Deadline, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Instead of letting our legs carry us aimlessly down the road with our minds interrogating every step, our thumbs pose too simple a question to which our smartphones are pleased to give us too simple an answer.
    Paul Greenberg, Time, 20 Sep. 2025
  • Both sides have also carried out arbitrary detentions, with SAF interrogating and beating dozens of Christians in 2024 and 2025.
    Paul Tilsley, FOXNews.com, 14 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Everyone needs a break from the day-to-day but trying to take a trip to get away on a budget can be challenging.
    Craig Shoup, Nashville Tennessean, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Since debuting in 2019’s Honey Boy, Twigs seems drawn to challenging characters within an ensemble.
    Shirley Halperin, HollywoodReporter, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The Eyeball’s best moment so far this season was when the twerpy CEO was quizzing it on the next three numbers of pi.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2025
  • The study — NewsGuard tested 10 leading AI models, quizzing each of them about 10 narratives spreading online linked to current events that the company had determined to be false.
    Billy Perrigo, Time, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • This musical blends gospel and Motown with operatic stylings to illuminate the changing times of the Civil Rights era while examining social and familial issues still prevalent today.
    Meredith G. White, AZCentral.com, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The exhibition is devoted to examining modes of representation in different mediums where artists have addressed the concept of mourning, commemoration, and loss as a direct response to the national emergency of black grief.
    Simon Njami, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Another at the micro level is a lot of lopsided red and blue districts and very few purple ones, which means that precious few individual seats are likely to change hands, or even be worth contesting.
    Craig Gilbert, jsonline.com, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Diggs filed a response to the suit, contesting that the baby is his.
    Kayla Grant, PEOPLE, 22 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The goal is to alarm you into calling a scammer's fake support number under the pretense of disputing a fraudulent PayPal transaction.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Tylenol manufacturer Kenvue issued a statement Sunday strongly disputing any link between autism and acetaminophen use during pregnancy.
    Joseph Choi, The Hill, 22 Sep. 2025

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“Querying.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/querying. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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