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Synonyms

burning question

Idioms

An urgent or crucial issue under heated discussion. For example, Real estate taxes are always a burning question for the town leaders. This term has exact equivalents in French (question brûlante) and German (brennende Frage). [Mid-1800s]

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burning question

This past week’s anemic employment report rekindled a burning question for the U.S. economy: How many new jobs does it actually need?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026

A burning question now is, when will the court rule?

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 15, 2025

I think that leaves us with the burning question you and I are now asking every week: Are the justices really that naive and credulous?

From Slate ● Jul. 18, 2025

Everyone, from regular Koreans to world leaders, was left with the same burning question:

From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2025

He did have one burning question, however, that he simply could not hold in.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman

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