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crucial question

NOUN
sixty-four thousand dollar question
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His death, Mr. Potter writes, raised “a crucial question: What now qualified a man to be Rome’s emperor?”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

But at the end of the day, these companies still need to answer a crucial question, according to Araghi: “What are you selling and how are you ultimately going to monetize this?”

From MarketWatch Jun. 27, 2026

The two also disagreed on the crucial question of how to tackle Senegal's high debt.

From Barron's May 24, 2026

It all adds up to a crucial question: Can the nearly 50-year-old franchise still delight its longtime fans, while bringing in new viewers to help it endure?

From Los Angeles Times May 21, 2026

Beadle and Tatum shared a Nobel Prize in 1958 for their discovery, but the Beadle/Tatum experiment raised a crucial question that remained unanswered: How did a gene “encode” information to build a protein?

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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