query
noun
a question; an inquiry.
querying
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present participleof query.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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In more than 600 agricultural safety investigations, officials never visited worksites and instead performed “letter investigations,” or querying employers by mail.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2025
Wolff was also receiving advice from Epstein, at one point querying him about the best questions to ask Trump in a coming Oval Office interview.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2025
"These actors generally sought to use OpenAI services for querying open-source information, translating, finding coding errors, and running basic coding tasks," the firm said at the time.
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2025
Wade, he suggested, may channel its efforts toward querying the morality and legality of editing human genes in the womb.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2025
I can almost feel the querying powers gathering in her forehead.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
