million-dollar question

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Which leads us to the million-dollar question: How bad could measles get this year?

From Slate • Apr. 24, 2025

"That's the million-dollar question, right? Do doctors in emergency departments change what they do if this bill passes? I don't know if the answer is yes," she said.

From Salon • Apr. 23, 2025

"Now, the million-dollar question," Husbands says, "is, 'How do you get these functionally divergent outcomes?'"

From Science Daily • Dec. 5, 2024

But whether they will turn out to vote is the million-dollar question.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2024

“That’s the million-dollar question, isn’t it, Rondo? I was just sittin’ here tryin’ to figure that one out.”

From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña