open-ended
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“The parents learn the value of those interactions with their children. The importance of spending time truly talking, not just directive talk … but open-ended questions, using songs and rhymes, storytelling, descriptive language.”
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2026
Most of the Iranian artists left their instructions generously open-ended, inviting the interpretations and transmutations of their U.S. peers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
Eliza, as people know it, is a therapy bot that begins conversations with “How do you do. Please tell me your problem” and offers open-ended questions to keep the conversation going.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
Claude and Gemini: The settings in Anthropic and Google’s chatbots have an open-ended custom instruction field.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
I wasn’t sure how,the aliens were going to answer an open-ended question, especially since they’d never answered me before, but they were capable of interstellar travel; providing me with a date should have been cake.
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
Vocabulary lists containing open-ended
TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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Engineering - Introductory
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Engineering: Defining Problems and Designing Solutions - Introductory
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