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She was sitting down in her stately Oaxaca home when we connected over Zoom, and smiled widely the moment I brought up my metaphysical query.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
The Chinese embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to a query for comment.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
The local-device tool doesn’t maintain or share extensive query histories.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
And to specifically bring it back to Douthat’s dubious query, Diarra — either of them — is precisely the kind of woman who puts the lie to fantasies about female submissiveness.
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026
If Rahel tried to say something, Ammu would interrupt with a new thought or query.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
The US Trade Representative's office did not respond to queries on the matter.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
And those are queries that must be addressed because, whether we like it or not, even dystopian rom-coms might point us in the right — or even new — direction.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
Even Claude, Anthropic’s AI chatbot, responds to queries by saying “Dario Amodei’s marital status doesn’t seem to be clearly confirmed.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Council queries £45k fine for 'employing illegal worker'
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
But the queries and compliments stopped when the weight loss didn’t.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
When queried by AFP about the Washington Post report, the White House sent a statement defending the new plane's safety.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
In Target, she’d be queried about where to find the Christmas decorations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Others queried, external whether they would be able to re-sell the game after, as can be done with normal physical editions with a disc, or whether the code would be shareable.
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026
Former Chief Justice Jean Toal, at the supreme court’s request, queried the jurors individually under oath in a January 2024 hearing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026
“How did you know Mr. Rodrigo was having a heart attack?” queried the girl next to Trent.
From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman
Bank regulators, too, have stepped up their focus on the risks posed by the industry, with the Federal Reserve querying banks about their lending and exposure to private credit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
An October 2025 report from the Justice Department Inspector General found that the FBI has “implemented all of RISAA’s querying reforms” and that the number of noncompliant queries had been “reduced substantially.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026
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
"Some were querying 'have we reached peak Greggs?' and we have gone out...to demonstrate that this is not the case," the food retail boss said.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2025
“Going around, querying publishers, trying to find an agent. I haven’t done it, and I am not interested in doing it.”
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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