query
Example Sentences
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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
CVS plans to expand its current roster of AI-simulated people to over one hundred thousand agents, and query those agentic twins in areas like store layouts and new product designs.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026
And then he interrupted a question to return to a previous query about his play calling, needing to rebut the strangers on the internet picking apart his work.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2026
Once she’d found half a dozen, she went to Harry Dibdin at the Bodleian Library with another cataloging query.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
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