beg the question
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But as the season draws nearer and a new era of Bruin football begins, all the enthusiasm does beg the question: What does a successful debut actually look like for Chesney at UCLA?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
Recent high-profile museum heists beg the question: What can be done to ensure your personal collection doesn’t meet the same fate?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
The recent mishaps do beg the question, what is set piece coach Carlos Fernandes, who accompanied Amorim from Sporting, actually doing?
From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2024
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
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
