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

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

But the most poignant and heated query at the breakfast table is: Did you get the salmon?

From Salon • Feb. 28, 2026

Char repeated the query in every letter, probably because my answers were so silly that they pleased him.

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine