crucial question

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Which brings us to a crucial question: What does the exit look like?

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

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

A fleet of lorries was seen at Fordo just before the attack and the crucial question is what they were moving and where it has gone.

From BBC • Jun. 25, 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