enquiry
[en-kwahyuh r-ee, en-kwuh-ree]
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queryinquiryinquisitionstudyprobeanalysisquestioninginterrogationinvestigationexaminationexplorationresearchinspectionExamples from the Web for enquiries
Contemporary Examples
For urgent enquiries, or indeed any enquiries, please contact someone who is not an insane psychopath.
Enquiries are continuing to establish the circumstances of the incident.
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December 7, 2012
The BBC has now done pretty much all it can—pending the outcomes of those two enquiries.
The letters demanded they cooperate with Turkish enquiries, though no criminal charges have been brought until now.
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January 13, 2012
Historical Examples
There will be enquiries, explanations, quarrels, and bloodshed.
This day's enquiries partly revives my hopes, but I am far from sanguine.
Heroes of the TelegraphJ. Munro
Enquiries were made in every direction, but none had seen him depart.
"We'll follow by the 1.50," said Hil, when her enquiries were answered.
Australia RevengedBoomerang
Do not make any enquiries about me, and if chance should let you know who I am, forget it for ever.
The Memoires of Casanova, CompleteJacques Casanova de Seingalt
Word Origin and History for enquiries
enquiry
n.
alternative spelling of inquiry. Related: Enquiries.
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper