burning question

Example Sentences

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Travelers hunt for regional souvenirs, soothe their homesickness and investigate a burning question: Is the hot dog different?

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026

A burning question now is, when will the court rule?

From MarketWatch • Dec. 15, 2025

For conservationists, the ferocious Franklin fire and other recent blazes raise a burning question: Is it possible to break this feedback loop and turn the clock back on an increasingly flammable ecosystem?

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2024

The burning question facing America is: Will the other basic drive, which Freud called Eros and Harris and Walz call joy, provide us with an alternative?

From Slate • Oct. 1, 2024

I’m silent, watching her, wanting to ask the burning question I’ve held on to since I figured out Abby died.

From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott