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[kweer-ee] / ˈkwɪər i /




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Later, on social media, Gunn responded to a fan’s query regarding those rumored to be front-runners for the Batman role.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

Google's omnipresent search engine now defaults to AI summaries of a person's query, and that hit the number of advertisements it was able to sell during the quarter.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

So when I received an email from a 76-year-old retired professor and university band director over the summer, I was initially hesitant to respond to his query:

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026

Shortly after, Peltola read another scripted answer about high prices, provoking the Sullivan query about advance questions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

I sent query letters to a dozen agencies and was stunned one August day when I opened our mailbox and found a request from a New York agency for the completed manuscript.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini

Google has been experimenting with different ad formats within AI surfaces, Flax told MarketWatch, and he believes the company will be able to effectively monetize those conversational queries in the long term.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2026

North Korea has always denied any involvement in these attacks; Binance has not directly responded to BBC queries about the incident's potential links to the area.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

Your burning questions, answered: In the special segment Decoder Rings Back, host Willa Paskin answers listeners’ queries about cultural mysteries.

From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2026

It then tried to answer those queries pre-emptively, assuring the approximately 75,000 residents, for example, that it expects its data center would consume water at a similar rate to an office building.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

But the queries and compliments stopped when the weight loss didn’t.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini

The paper says the couple "realise Meghan's claim a Royal Family member had queried son Archie's skin colour was 'her biggest mistake'"

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Monday’s research queried people about their jobs, how often they use AI and how they use it.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026

He queried aides about why Iran wasn’t backing down amid the unrelenting bombing campaign.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

We queried experts across sports medicine, personal training and physical therapy to devise easy routines comprising simple exercises you can do at home to test and train your balance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

“What do you want to do now?” he queried.

From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter

They found that such acceptance becomes more likely if the person is under time pressure, faces a complex task or doesn’t have a good understanding of what they are querying, among other factors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026

An October 2025 report from the Justice Department Inspector General found that the FBI has “implemented all of RISAA’s querying reforms” and that the number of noncompliant queries had been “reduced substantially.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026

That’s why analysts have consistently flagged the upcoming park during earnings calls for rival Disney, querying executives about the potential pressure on Disney World and how the company plans to compete.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2025

Antonio was able to ask questions, including querying whether he was taken to hospital by air ambulance.

From BBC ● May 16, 2025

“Going around, querying publishers, trying to find an agent. I haven’t done it, and I am not interested in doing it.”

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell


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