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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

The burning question is: what's different this time?

From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2026

Travelers hunt for regional souvenirs, soothe their homesickness and investigate a burning question: Is the hot dog different?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 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

He's walking away from me, and I try to stand my ground, but then finally chase after him up the steps to school, because I've got a burning question.

From "Will Grayson, Will Grayson" by John Green and David Levithan

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