million-dollar question

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West L.A. software developer Mike Eveloff asked the million-dollar question in one of his many observations during the debate:

From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2026

Which leads us to the million-dollar question: How bad could measles get this year?

From Slate • Apr. 24, 2025

"That's the million-dollar question, right? Do doctors in emergency departments change what they do if this bill passes? I don't know if the answer is yes," she said.

From Salon • Apr. 23, 2025

"Now, the million-dollar question," Husbands says, "is, 'How do you get these functionally divergent outcomes?'"

From Science Daily • Dec. 5, 2024

That’s the million-dollar question, baby, the Tootsie Roll question; not even the owl knows the answer to that one.

From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini