query

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It’s a query that McCarthy, who came of age — and amassed megawatt fame — as a 1980s heartthrob in films like “Class” and “Pretty in Pink” before transitioning to feted author, longs to address.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026

The tech journalist Kara Swisher, for instance, answered a query from a fellow journalist by labeling the Grammarly folks “rapacious information and identity thieves.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2026

A token is the fundamental unit of data used to process a query and produce a response.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 16, 2026

A simple chatbot query such as “What will the weather be today?” will be interpreted by a model as six to eight tokens.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 16, 2026

In their coded exchanges they had drawn close, but how artificial that closeness seemed now as they embarked on their small talk, their helpless catechism of polite query and response.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan