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

Prefill happens when a user enters a prompt, forcing the model to interpret the query by processing each word, symbol or image it contains.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 16, 2026

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

From Salon • Feb. 28, 2026

I would query her opinion on things, ask her all sorts of questions.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela