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[kweer-ee] / ˈkwɪər i /




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"We've been crying out for a long time that there needs to be something, anything at all. My query there is how long are they going to be stuck in the system?"

From BBC Jul. 12, 2026

“How come he’s a man, and you’re a—.” Ruthye’s subsequent query is cut off by the plot starting up again, and the gendered difference between the two names is never brought up again.

From Salon Jun. 27, 2026

The National Park Service did not respond to an AFP query seeking comment and confirmation.

From Barron's Jun. 21, 2026

Regarding your specific query: One firing typically doesn’t signal mass layoffs.

From MarketWatch Jun. 12, 2026

There was a long pause, followed by the query: “Wash’a comet?”

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

It wasn’t clear if the queries were part of genuine efforts to make the weapons or exercises to probe the apps’ capabilities, according to people familiar with the exchanges.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 26, 2026

Neither Indonesian nor Singaporean authorities gave definitive answers to the BBC's previous queries about what they intend to do with the babies.

From BBC Jul. 23, 2026

“While investors may have thought of Copilot as an AI model in itself, it is already working as a tool that helps funnel queries and tasks to the appropriate model,” he wrote.

From MarketWatch Jul. 21, 2026

Arena ranked Kimi K3 ninth worldwide for text queries.

From Barron's Jul. 17, 2026

The Count looked thoroughly puzzled by Poirot’s queries.

From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie

After the call, analyst Brian Finneran launched an informal poll on his Bloomberg Terminal in which he queried investors and other analysts about their preferences.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 6, 2026

Others queried, external whether they would be able to re-sell the game after, as can be done with normal physical editions with a disc, or whether the code would be shareable.

From BBC Jun. 24, 2026

In written follow-up questions sent after his hearing last week, Democrats queried him on issues from interest-rate policy to concerns about his independence from the White House.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 28, 2026

When queried about competing with customers at a press conference, Haas said, “It is a massive, massive market. We think there’s room for lots of different players, so we’re not really too worried about that.”

From Barron's Mar. 24, 2026

“Hey, what’s going on?” queried one of his roommates drowsily.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

Bank regulators, too, have stepped up their focus on the risks posed by the industry, with the Federal Reserve querying banks about their lending and exposure to private credit.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 23, 2026

The strategy starts with Amazon’s homegrown AI chips, called Trainium and Inferentia, which are specialized, respectively, for training models and querying them for results.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 27, 2026

Several cast doubt on Burnham's popularity among the Parliamentary Labour Party, with some querying if he would have support from the 80-odd MPs needed to trigger a leadership contest.

From BBC Jan. 26, 2026

In more than 600 agricultural safety investigations, officials never visited worksites and instead performed “letter investigations,” or querying employers by mail.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 20, 2025

"I'll be querying them about the carriage, showing the false orders Willem created. I'll draw it out as long as I can, but you'll have barely any time, and they absolutely cannot see you."

From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse




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