QUERYING Synonyms: 66 Similar and Opposite Words

querying

verb

present participle of query

as in questioning

to demand proof of the truth or rightness of it seems odd that someone would want two stoves, so you'd better query that order

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as in asking

to put a question or questions to queried the professor about the assignment

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as in interrogating

to put a series of questions to once the statement was given, the press secretary allowed reporters to query the President

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Recent Examples of querying The company added that some search terms tested by the group carried ambiguous intentions that didn’t overtly signal a mental health crisis, and that people usually ask follow-ups after first querying Google. — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 15 July 2026 Some firms now require employees to document their own reasoning before querying AI and flag where the two diverge, turning a usage log into an actual signal of judgment. — Juliette Han, Forbes.com, 27 June 2026 Officials believe these operations involve querying advanced AI systems repeatedly. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 23 Apr. 2026 Reports of the court's concern were cited by privacy advocates and some congressional aides as a reason Congress should not reauthorize the law without changes and without the administration explaining the querying filter issue. — Arkansas Online, 12 Apr. 2026 Instead of flooding analysts with thousands of warnings, the agents gather evidence in real time—querying threat-intelligence databases, analyzing behavioral patterns, and filtering out false positives—before deciding whether a situation warrants escalation. — Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 23 Feb. 2026 The company helps its clients connect their data with AI models to launch custom agents, in addition to providing tools for storing, processing and querying data. — Jordan Novet, CNBC, 9 Feb. 2026 People who are obsessed with querying to the point of ignoring the actual work aren’t going to produce anything of value. — Literary Hub, 29 Jan. 2026 The chips will primarily be used for inferencing, a kind of querying of a large language model so a chatbot can generate an answer. — Manal Albarakati, semafor.com, 29 Oct. 2025

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Conscious reading means questioning every line, editing unapologetically and removing the fluff your customers don't have time to read.

— Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
The Times of London published a similar analysis of Arday's thesis that same day, questioning whether Arday should have cited his sources more heavily.

— Mason Leib, ABC News, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of questioning

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Two physicians, Howard Israel and William Seidelman, wrote to JAMA in 1996 asking a simple question about where the bodies came from.

— Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2026
OutKick is already basically banned from most WNBA events at this point, so don't depend on us asking them to elaborate.

— Zach Dean OutKick, FOXNews.com, 8 Aug. 2026

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In the case of the Azov and Aidar women, Russian negotiators were willing to consider their release, given that none of them had taken part in any direct fighting and that Russian investigators had finished interrogating them.

— Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026
Recognizing those forces in the world isn’t the same thing as interrogating them, and as a seasoned artist with real power in Hollywood, Gluck repeatedly mistakes implication for insight.

— Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of interrogating

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Indeed, the movie opens with Ed quizzing an older Greek man he’s befriended on the Belgian designer Ann Demeulemeester, before berating him for confusing his Bottega Veneta loafers for Sebago.

— CNN Money, CNN Money, 17 July 2026
Prosecutors spent the start of George’s testimony quizzing him on the organizational structure of the sheriff’s office, as well as how internal affairs investigations play out.

— Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 June 2026

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Reuters reported the same day that lawyers are examining who could bear responsibility when autonomous AI systems access computer systems without authorization.

— Ron Schmelzer, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
The film captures the friction between tennis snobs and the more democratic pickleballers while examining father-son relationships and intergenerational friendships.

— Christine Ledbetter, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of examining

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And similar figures to those contesting power after Stalin’s death will likely be the key players during the window between Putin’s departure from the political scene and the formal election to crown a new apex executive that follows.

— Julian G. Waller, Foreign Affairs, 7 Aug. 2026
Sharif’s government responded with a crackdown on Khan’s party, arresting its leaders and banning it from contesting the 2024 general election.

— Sophia Saifi, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of contesting

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That documentation can help when disputing fraudulent accounts and charges.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 9 Aug. 2026
Investigations are ongoing into how cyanide found its way to an ecosystem where wild and domestic animals coexist and farms grow tomatoes and onions, but growers are disputing claims that cyanide from their tomatoes killed the elephants.

— ABC News, ABC News, 7 Aug. 2026

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