plural queries
queried; querying
1
: to ask questions of especially with a desire for authoritative information
2
: to ask questions about especially in order to resolve a doubt
3
: to put as a question
4
: to mark with a query
querier
noun
Examples of query in a Sentence
Noun
I have a query about my order.
The librarian responded to my query.
Verb
They conducted a survey in which several hundred people were queried about their dietary habits.
it seems odd that someone would want two stoves, so you'd better query that order
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Hadas Gold, CNN Money, 15 July 2025
The next step, date to be confirmed, will see responses to user queries linked to Coinbase market data.
—Billy Bambrough, Forbes.com, 13 July 2025
Callum Sutherland, Time, 2 July 2025
There are countless models in the AI space, and determining the best one to direct one’s prompts also takes some understanding of the topic, the context, and the model being queried.
—Joe McKendrick, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
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Noun
Last week, after the uproar over Grok’s antisemitic responses on X to some user’s queries, CNN paid for and downloaded xAI’s Grok 4, Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro and OpenAI’s ChatGPT 4o Plus.
—Hadas Gold, CNN Money, 15 July 2025
The next step, date to be confirmed, will see responses to user queries linked to Coinbase market data.
—Billy Bambrough, Forbes.com, 13 July 2025
Verb
Leader of the opposition, Kemi Badenoch of the Conservative Party, queried whether the government would increase taxes in November to combat the new potential costs of the bill.
—Callum Sutherland, Time, 2 July 2025
There are countless models in the AI space, and determining the best one to direct one’s prompts also takes some understanding of the topic, the context, and the model being queried.
—Joe McKendrick, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
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“Query.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/query. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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query
2 of 2 verb
queried; querying
1
: to ask questions about especially in order to clear up doubts
2
: to put as a question
queried the matter to their teacher
3
: to ask questions of
queried the professor
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