crucial question

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A US submarine this week torpedoing an Iranian warship during the Middle East conflict raised the crucial question of who controls the seas during wartime.

From Barron's • Mar. 6, 2026

Whether that holds true is the crucial question for turbine manufacturers and their investors.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025

The crucial question is whether seeing the film helped Miller piece things together.

From BBC • Apr. 10, 2025

They should cede no ground on this crucial question — and, generally speaking, they are not.

From Salon • Sep. 8, 2024

Beadle and Tatum shared a Nobel Prize in 1958 for their discovery, but the Beadle/Tatum experiment raised a crucial question that remained unanswered: How did a gene “encode” information to build a protein?

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee