QUERYING Synonyms: 66 Similar and Opposite Words

querying

verb

present participle of query

as in questioning

to demand proof of the truth or rightness of it seems odd that someone would want two stoves, so you'd better query that order

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as in asking

to put a question or questions to queried the professor about the assignment

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as in interrogating

to put a series of questions to once the statement was given, the press secretary allowed reporters to query the President

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Recent Examples of querying Officials believe these operations involve querying advanced AI systems repeatedly. —

Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 23 Apr. 2026 Reports of the court's concern were cited by privacy advocates and some congressional aides as a reason Congress should not reauthorize the law without changes and without the administration explaining the querying filter issue. —

Arkansas Online, 12 Apr. 2026 Instead of flooding analysts with thousands of warnings, the agents gather evidence in real time—querying threat-intelligence databases, analyzing behavioral patterns, and filtering out false positives—before deciding whether a situation warrants escalation. —

Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 23 Feb. 2026 The company helps its clients connect their data with AI models to launch custom agents, in addition to providing tools for storing, processing and querying data. —

Jordan Novet, CNBC, 9 Feb. 2026 People who are obsessed with querying to the point of ignoring the actual work aren’t going to produce anything of value. —

Literary Hub, 29 Jan. 2026 The chips will primarily be used for inferencing, a kind of querying of a large language model so a chatbot can generate an answer. —

Manal Albarakati, semafor.com, 29 Oct. 2025 Mahan’s budget team also used AI to spot spending and revenue trends and provide insight by querying past financial records. —

Devan Patel, Mercury News, 18 Oct. 2025 When querying luxury shoppers in July, Essner said tariffs were not hitting in a big way. —

David Moin, Footwear News, 9 Sep. 2025

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Taking a step back and questioning the way things are done can be an eye-opening experience that leads to surprising breakthroughs, especially as AI continues to bring about rapid change.

— David Henkin, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
Canadians aren’t alone in these feelings; other would-be foreign visitors have balked at the talk over the US annexing Greenland, questioning the NATO alliance, and the handling of tariffs or wars.

— Natasha Chen, CNN Money, 25 May 2026