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rhetorical question

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It’s not entirely a rhetorical question; a lot of people at least pretended to.

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Obviously, it was a rhetorical question as Saldaña’s triumphs have continued unabated.

Exhausted and exasperated, the quarterback had a rhetorical question for the cluster: “Can’t you let a guy sulk in peace?”

There was the virality of it all, of course: “Nasty” birthed memes to match your freak, a new rhetorical question — mantra, really — for a generation of people daring someone to meet them at their level.

It was a rhetorical question designed to impress on them his urgency and his demand that part of their job would be walking the streets with him.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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