leading question
Example Sentences
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Armed with little more than a few leading questions, researchers have found that most humans can be easily manipulated into believing that they did or saw something they didn’t.
From Los Angeles Times
So it’s not posing any leading questions, not expressing any judgment.
From Los Angeles Times
He appeared to want to avoid graphic testimony, meandering answers and leading questions.
From New York Times
Three years later, here for gigs with his jazz band, Allen answered a Times reporter’s leading question that maybe L.A.’s not such a bad place after all?
From Los Angeles Times
Louisville police investigations into shootings by officers “are routinely deficient,” the report said, including cases where investigators would ask leading questions during interviews, “at times suggesting possible justifications for the officer’s use of force.”
From Washington Post
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