quizzing

present participle of quiz

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of quizzing 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 Think of the senators quizzing Mark Zuckerberg on what Facebook is. Eliza Strickland, IEEE Spectrum, 13 June 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for quizzing
Verb
  • That foggy conclusion leaves the reader in the position of the speaker herself, asking questions about her own capacity to sympathize against her tendency to wonder.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2025
  • In February, Greenberg's family settled lawsuits with the City of Philadelphia and others, asking them to reevaluate Ellen's manner of death.
    Emma Bussey, FOXNews.com, 14 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The story is wall-to-wall clichés, with the playable bits serving as flashbacks to catch audiences up to the present, where the Marines are interrogating a shady government official about how the world went FUBAR.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2025
  • 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
Verb
  • Climate activists are now questioning why gas utilities are making this investment.
    NPR, NPR, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Transgender, nonbinary, and gender-questioning youth and survey participants aged 13 to 17 had the poorest mental health and highest risk for suicide, the survey said.
    Ken Alltucker, USA Today, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Pritzker suggested that the Illinois Attorney General and local state’s attorneys may be examining allegations of misconduct and wrongdoing within DHS.
    Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Several films offer immediate responses to critical current events, while others take time to reflect, examining the social realities and challenges shaping people’s lives today.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2025

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