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as in exam
a set of questions or problems designed to assess knowledge, skills, or intelligence
according to the magazine's marriage quiz, the chances that we'll have a 10th wedding anniversary are just about nil
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as in tease
a person who causes repeated emotional pain, distress, or annoyance to another
always eager to put everything down, my boyfriend had to be a quiz and make fun of the actors and costumes in our local theater troupe's latest production
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as in character
a person of odd or whimsical habits
even by House of Lords standards, the cross-dressing earl was considered quite a quiz
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as in to ask
to put a question or questions to
quickly quizzed her about the assignment before heading off to class
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as in to question
to put a series of questions to
hated the way those relatives would quiz me about my partner and our living arrangements
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Recent Examples of quiz
Melinda Yao, NBC news, 4 Apr. 2026
Sometimes a quiz page loads slowly, and completing quizzes requires excessive clicking.
—Jill Duffy, PC Magazine, 30 Mar. 2026
Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 10 Mar. 2026
Rudofsky then quizzed Givens about Toney's business when he was actively engaged in drug trafficking -- most of which involved marijuana but by 2022 also involved multiple pounds of methamphetamine and cocaine as well as fentanyl.
—Arkansas Online, 24 Feb. 2026
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Noun
Test your knowledge of the week in news, and take last week’s quiz here.
—Melinda Yao, NBC news, 4 Apr. 2026
Sometimes a quiz page loads slowly, and completing quizzes requires excessive clicking.
—Jill Duffy, PC Magazine, 30 Mar. 2026
Verb
At that meeting, the documents said, Merchant used a napkin and other objects to depict various assassination scenarios, quizzing Ali on how a target might be killed in each.
—Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 10 Mar. 2026
Rudofsky then quizzed Givens about Toney's business when he was actively engaged in drug trafficking -- most of which involved marijuana but by 2022 also involved multiple pounds of methamphetamine and cocaine as well as fentanyl.
—Arkansas Online, 24 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quiz
Noun
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The Florida Heiken Children’s Vision Program will visit 32 schools in Miami-Dade County through April providing about 1,478 comprehensive eye exams.—
Christina Mayo,
Miami Herald,
2 Apr. 2026
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But Morath has cited the district’s overall below-average performance on the STAAR exams, which will need to improve before the state will return local control.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
1 Apr. 2026
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The Mormon Wives season three reunion was a tease of what was to come for the series, which saw more of the spotlight shift onto DadTok.—
McKinley Franklin,
HollywoodReporter,
31 Mar. 2026
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That’s why the pretty-much-annual fleeting tease like a High Point is so embraced and celebrated.—
Greg Cote
Updated March 23,
Miami Herald,
23 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Wonderlab’s focus will be creating wildly fun, commercial, character-driven, genre-bending films.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
9 Apr. 2026
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The show jumps forward five years for its latest iteration, with the characters confronting adult (in every sense of the word) issues in their lives.—
Shirley Halperin,
Rolling Stone,
9 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Aries March 21 – April 19 Your work — professional or personal — may ask a little more of you today.—
Tarot.com,
Sun Sentinel,
10 Apr. 2026
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Namira’s mother often asks her children to copy-edit her e-mails.—
Molly Fischer,
New Yorker,
10 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Still, some critics have questioned the role of law enforcement on school campuses, particularly in secondary schools, raising concerns that such programs can feel more like surveillance than support.—
Mona Darwish,
Oc Register,
4 Apr. 2026
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The hidden cost of going back to school Students are increasingly questioning the value proposition of higher education.—
Jake Angelo,
Fortune,
4 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The original proposal included a provision that would have banned athletes from participating in sports after three positive tests.—
Brady Halbleib,
CBS News,
9 Apr. 2026
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By 2017, monitoring wells — narrow pipes drilled into the ground to test groundwater — confirmed that contamination had been migrating off-site.—
Ashley Miznazi,
Miami Herald,
9 Apr. 2026
Noun
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In 2015, Robert Durst, a wealthy eccentric linked to two killings and his wife’s disappearance, was arrested by the FBI in New Orleans on a murder warrant a day before HBO aired the final episode of a serial documentary about his life.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
28 Feb. 2026
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On her trail are a Báthory relative who is vegetarian (Thomas Schubert), his psychotherapist (Lars Eidinger), two vampirologists, a police inspector and a gallery of eccentrics.—
Elsa Keslassy,
Variety,
14 Feb. 2026
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John Shaban, a former three-term Republican state representative from Redding, was interrogated about the recent administrative suspension of his law license in New York and, before that, his being charged with disorderly conduct after an argument with his girlfriend.—
Edmund H. Mahony,
Hartford Courant,
3 Apr. 2026
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One of the most grimly funniest moments of the movie sees Tereza interrogate the boat driver about that wedding ring on his finger.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
3 Apr. 2026
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“Quiz.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quiz. Accessed 10 Apr. 2026.
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