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"We've been crying out for a long time that there needs to be something, anything at all. My query there is how long are they going to be stuck in the system?"
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
“How come he’s a man, and you’re a—.” Ruthye’s subsequent query is cut off by the plot starting up again, and the gendered difference between the two names is never brought up again.
From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2026
He’s tried Claude Code before but prefers Cursor’s indexed codebase, which allows users to query a multi-file project in natural language and find relevant code.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 19, 2026
The White House did not respond to a query about the lineup changes.
From Barron's ● May 28, 2026
There was a long pause, followed by the query: “Wash’a comet?”
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
People spent $1.2 million betting on these queries, according to Aeon magazine.
From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2026
Scaled Cognition addresses AI hallucination with a model that predicts structured objects, such as programs and system queries, in addition to token streams.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
I realize I’m posing a lot of queries here and not following them up with any concrete answers, but that’s because I don’t really have the answers myself.
From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2026
Cretton started to answer the queries, but was then interrupted by another voice.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
He queries me with a series of head tilts.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
After the call, analyst Brian Finneran launched an informal poll on his Bloomberg Terminal in which he queried investors and other analysts about their preferences.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
Former Chief Justice Jean Toal, at the supreme court’s request, queried the jurors individually under oath in a January 2024 hearing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026
On social media, commentators have pointed out the cost of cemetery plots and queried how the new law will be regulated.
From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2026
When queried about competing with customers at a press conference, Haas said, “It is a massive, massive market. We think there’s room for lots of different players, so we’re not really too worried about that.”
From Barron's ● Mar. 24, 2026
“Save you from five hundred silver?” queried Calixte.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
The strategy starts with Amazon’s homegrown AI chips, called Trainium and Inferentia, which are specialized, respectively, for training models and querying them for results.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
Several cast doubt on Burnham's popularity among the Parliamentary Labour Party, with some querying if he would have support from the 80-odd MPs needed to trigger a leadership contest.
From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2026
In more than 600 agricultural safety investigations, officials never visited worksites and instead performed “letter investigations,” or querying employers by mail.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2025
Wolff was also receiving advice from Epstein, at one point querying him about the best questions to ask Trump in a coming Oval Office interview.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2025
With a querying look on his face, he said, “I’m afraid I don’t understand. I thought you always wanted to go to town.”
From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls
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