beg the question
Example Sentences
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“It will beg the question of the senior staff, why are you here? Why do we need to promote you? Why do you need a raise when you’re flaunting things like that?”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 7, 2026
It may not quite beg the question of whether Liverpool actually need to make such a lavish outlay on another striker, but it will give Slot a conundrum to solve.
From BBC • Aug. 15, 2025
Yet they beg the question: Wouldn’t it be easier to ditch milk, cheese, and beef for plant-based alternatives?
From Scientific American • Nov. 7, 2023
Yet they beg the question: Wouldn’t it be easier to ditch milk, cheese and beef for plant-based alternatives?
From Salon • Nov. 2, 2023
This might seem to beg the question of how the ball got rolling in the first place—the ‘first cause’.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
