rhetorical question
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In a concurring opinion, Gorsuch stated the stakes more plainly by posing a rhetorical question: If the president’s argument was given credence, then “what do we make of the Constitution’s text?”
From Salon ● Feb. 21, 2026
It’s not entirely a rhetorical question; a lot of people at least pretended to.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2025
It was a rhetorical question designed to impress on them his urgency and his demand that part of their job would be walking the streets with him.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 2024
An ally of the Home Office minister later suggested he had been posing a rhetorical question.
From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2024
He turned around now to look at me, for he was still dueling, posing a rhetorical question, almost a joke.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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