open question

noun

: a matter or problem that is being discussed but to which the answer is not yet known

Whether voters will support him remains an open question.

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For Starbucks and new CEO Brian Niccol, what to do in China is an open question. —

Matthew J. Belvedere,kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 24 Sep. 2024 Whether Tesla is anywhere close to completing its push to develop the technology needed to do so, however, remains an open question. —

Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2024 One open question, however, is whether study participants benefited simply from having a therapist to talk to or specifically from the therapy approaches used with CBT, Nourbakhsh says. —

Lisa Rapaport, EverydayHealth.com, 17 Oct. 2024 But there's an open question too about what role former First Lady Michelle Obama might play in these final days. —

NBC News, 13 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for open question

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