How to Use the big question in a Sentence
the big question
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That's the big question, the one the world throws at you every morning.
—Madoline Markham, Country Living, 30 Aug. 2023
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This is the big question—and one that doesn’t have a clear-cut answer.
—Brian Underwood, Women's Health, 31 July 2023
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Of course, the big question to be learned on this trip is who is the best surfer on the football team and who is the best golfer?
—Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2023
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Well, this is the big question that's looming over this race.
—ABC News, 19 Mar. 2023
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That was the big question running through my head: Why?
—Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Oct. 2023
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And the big question, Jon, is, who’s at the table on the Republican side?
—ABC News, 17 Dec. 2023
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The obvious place to start is the big question: Which movies were straight up the most popular?
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2023
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Getting ready to pop the big question, but feeling a bit lost about how to propose?
—Boutayna Chokrane, Vogue, 20 Nov. 2023
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That’s the big question, and one the Supreme Court may eventually need to answer.
—David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2024
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However, the big question was when all that moisture was present.
—Katherine Kornei, Discover Magazine, 14 Nov. 2023
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And while the big question of how Damien came into the world was answered, so many other questions popped up for me as an Omen fan.
—Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Apr. 2024
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Outside of performance, the big question facing the RTX 4070 is cost.
—Michael Kan, PCMAG, 20 Mar. 2023
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Now the big question: In the past, has sleeping in or getting up on time produced more preferable results for me?
—Lucy Liu, WIRED, 1 Mar. 2023
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Whether or not there are enough of those people here in Iowa is the big question for the Florida governor.
—CBS News, 14 Jan. 2024
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But whether the rules generate new fans who might be more drawn to watching a shorter sporting event is the big question.
—Anna Brand, CNN, 30 Mar. 2023
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As expected, the big question was: do any of these couples get engaged?
—Joelle Goldstein, Peoplemag, 30 Aug. 2023
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That’s the big question that Microsoft needs to answer on Thursday.
—Tom Warren, The Verge, 12 Feb. 2024
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That’s the big question mark for a potential second season.
—Carly Thomas, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Feb. 2023
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As the haggling restarts behind closed doors, the big question is what the industry will look like when the studio productions are up and running again.
—Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2023
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Which brings us to the big question — one that needed to be answered in the final 20 games but might become a forever mystery: Is this a team worth the cost of running back?
—Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 8 Mar. 2024
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This takes us to the big question: How many people can actually make it as an influencer?
—Yec, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
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Now, aside from their relationship status, the big question is, who wore it better?
—Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 7 Mar. 2023
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Which raises the big question: Will Givens and Crowder have another showdown?
—Greg Braxton, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2023
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That’s the big question after Bateman endured a year of physical and emotional swings.
—Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 4 Sep. 2023
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But in the end, the big question is whether there is any scientific evidence that rectal ozone therapy will do any of the aforementioned claims.
—Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2023
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The system is fumbling in search of an answer to the big question: Can Xi’s China still manage the pairing of autocracy and capitalism?
—Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
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That’s the big question coming to play as the world has watched start-up-focused Silicon Valley Bank’s fall causing a ripple effect for other regional banks.
—Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 14 Mar. 2023
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As posited in the Discover story, the big question is if the time travel component of the tachyon is simply an unproven one or an impossible one.
—Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 21 Feb. 2023
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Now the big question is whether all the regulators pulling on the buckles and loops of Boeing’s straitjacket, with a potential yank from Justice to come, will seriously delay what looked like the start of strong comeback.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 4 Mar. 2024
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Josh Duhamel relied on the tide (and a little help from the hotel concierge) to deliver his proposal to now-wife Audra Mari, planning a sunset beach stroll at the same time as a message in a bottle containing the big question washed ashore.
—Zoey Lyttle, Peoplemag, 20 Mar. 2023
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