interrogative
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She includes any information-seeking act, from a verbal interrogative to the sniff one might give a carton of milk to gauge its freshness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
Over the holiday season, there were online pile-ons galore, with straight women repeatedly taking gay critics of the show to task over their negative or merely interrogative opinions of the series.
From Salon ● Jan. 2, 2026
Had Cooper approached this question with the same interrogative spirit with which she approached her own narrative assumptions, the book would have felt more complete.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 14, 2020
Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., was presiding over the Senate when Schumer posed his interrogative.
From Fox News ● Sep. 26, 2020
And so, instead of saying Ashoke’s name, she utters the interrogative that has come to replace it, which translates roughly as “Are you listening to me?”
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
Speaking in a deadpan monotone, he is prone to responding to interrogatives with a curt “affirmative” or “negative” and saying things like “normal is for normal people.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2020
Piqued by the exclusion, he circulates a public letter, in which his resentments are masked by interrogatives and faux naïveté:
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 3, 2017
The extended forms of the pronouns given in the above table are not much used as separate words, except in answer to interrogatives, or assertively.
From The Wiradyuri and Other Languages of New South Wales by R. H. (Robert Hamilton) Mathews
Even in such stylistic devices as introducing the interrogatives by giving the form, following it with "to which one responds," and then listing a number of characteristic answers; Collado is faithful to the Introductiones.
From Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language by Richard L. Spear
This word is one of the interrogatives in the Indian language, and is equivalent to "what" in the English language.
From History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan A Grammar of Their Language, and Personal and Family History of the Author by Andrew J. Blackbird
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Language and Grammar - Introductory
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