querying

present participle of query

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Recent Examples of querying Some firms now require employees to document their own reasoning before querying AI and flag where the two diverge, turning a usage log into an actual signal of judgment. Juliette Han, Forbes.com, 27 June 2026 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for querying
Verb
  • But when Maggie’s ex-husband, Liam (Marcus Rosner), arrives with a shocking revelation, her world is thrown into turmoil once again — leaving Cal questioning whether Maggie can ever truly leave her past behind.
    Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 16 July 2026
  • Officials also spent hours questioning one of the deportees, Emmanuel McSweeney, 29, who told officials that neither he nor his parents were born in Haiti.
    Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 16 July 2026
Verb
  • Nester also called into question the security protocols surrounding the event, asking Bagley about how many officers were assigned and other preparations.
    Nicki Brown, CNN Money, 11 July 2026
  • Shipwrecked includes recordings of a series of increasingly astonishing phone calls between Schettino and the Italian Coast Guard, with the latter repeatedly asking him to clarify the nature of the emergency.
    Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 11 July 2026
Verb
  • Consumers are becoming increasingly comfortable interrogating formulations rather than simply admiring them, and that changes the relationship between brand and buyer in ways the industry is only beginning to understand.
    Kate Hardcastle, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
  • But the filmmaker proves more interested in interrogating that ethos than recreating it, and few horror mythologies are better suited to exploring betrayal and regret than one built around the refusal to let the dead remain dead.
    Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 8 July 2026
Verb
  • However, with thousands of dividend-paying companies to choose from, identifying the right stocks can be challenging.
    Tipranks.com Staff, CNBC, 5 July 2026
  • It is expected to be hot and dry through Monday, with very little humidity, officials said, making conditions challenging for containment.
    Chandelis Duster, NPR, 5 July 2026
Verb
  • Prosecutors spent the start of George’s testimony quizzing him on the organizational structure of the sheriff’s office, as well as how internal affairs investigations play out.
    Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 June 2026
  • The Tennessee Titans went back to the streets quizzing random people in their schedule reveal in a twist to the team’s 2023 schedule reveal.
    Teresa M. Walker, Chicago Tribune, 15 May 2026
Verb
  • So traders looking to get an edge began closely examining Ronaldo’s long, storied career for evidence of crying.
    Jon Sarlin, CNN Money, 11 July 2026
  • This premise, though intuitive, rests on an assumption worth examining, which is that a device only competes for the mind’s resources when it is actively being used.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
Verb
  • Three men who were in the vehicle alongside Lorenzo Salgado Araujo are contesting the Department of Homeland Security’s account of the fatal shooting.
    Arelis R. Hernández, Washington Post, 10 July 2026
  • Abbott is contesting that verdict and the Missouri appeals court’s decision.
    David Hilzenrath, USA Today, 2 July 2026
Verb
  • Hours after the shooting, Salgado Araujo’s son, Ronaldo Salgado, shared a message on Facebook remembering his father and disputing the circumstances surrounding his death.
    Angelique Brenes, PEOPLE, 8 July 2026
  • An internal Denver International Airport memo obtained by CBS Colorado appears to corroborate key details of a closed-door meeting that city officials have been publicly disputing.
    Brian Maass, CBS News, 26 June 2026

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