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query

[kweer-ee] / ˈkwɪər i /




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Before retiring the officer provided a statement that he had called her to advise of the intended police response to a media query, and about how information about the case could be reported and used.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

Mary Johnson, an independent Social Security and Medicare policy analyst, said asking specific questions can be more helpful than simply inputting a general query when using AI tools.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026

In response to a query, Claude called the 16th-century English queen “Catherine.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

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

She gathered it with its query, and left it with her reply, in one of a number of different hiding places that Oakley Street called left-luggage boxes.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman

Like other websites using AI-powered chatbots, users type in queries and converse with the system online.

From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026

General Services Administration and billed under the tagline “Whatever you need from government, start here,” the chatbot is designed to scour federal websites and spit out official information in response to users’ queries.

From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2026

Researchers were able to piece together the agents’ web queries because the bots were using an online tool to act as a web browser.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Across commercial-focused search queries, Google’s position “remains scaled and broadly stable,” Mahaney said.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026

He was greatly solicitous of my welfare following the battle, and asked me many sharp questions regarding it; which queries it was not in my power at first to answer.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

Monday’s research queried people about their jobs, how often they use AI and how they use it.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026

We queried experts across sports medicine, personal training and physical therapy to devise easy routines comprising simple exercises you can do at home to test and train your balance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

He also queried how the £265m figure had been reached by the GSA.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

When mortgage broker Market Financial Solutions collapsed in February, investors scoured court filings and queried lenders to see who took the hit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026

“Save you from five hundred silver?” queried Calixte.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

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

The strategy starts with Amazon’s homegrown AI chips, called Trainium and Inferentia, which are specialized, respectively, for training models and querying them for results.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 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

But residents reacted with a mix of anger and confusion on local social media groups, with many querying the council's motives.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2025

With a querying look on his face, he said, “I’m afraid I don’t understand. I thought you always wanted to go to town.”

From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls




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