query

Example Sentences

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If the information isn’t on the taxpayer’s return, that could produce a “matching error” and a computer-generated query demanding tax.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

The tech journalist Kara Swisher, for instance, answered a query from a fellow journalist by labeling the Grammarly folks “rapacious information and identity thieves.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2026

Prefill happens when a user enters a prompt, forcing the model to interpret the query by processing each word, symbol or image it contains.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 16, 2026

And then he interrupted a question to return to a previous query about his play calling, needing to rebut the strangers on the internet picking apart his work.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2026

“Well, she did tell us something at least. She didn’t say our query was wrong, just incomplete.”

From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman