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 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 Mahan’s budget team also used AI to spot spending and revenue trends and provide insight by querying past financial records. —

Devan Patel, Mercury News, 18 Oct. 2025 When querying luxury shoppers in July, Essner said tariffs were not hitting in a big way. —

David Moin, Footwear News, 9 Sep. 2025 The integration of pg_vector extension enables storing and querying millions of vectors with millisecond response times, supporting real-time AI applications that process unstructured data alongside traditional business records. —

Janakiram Msv, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025 Land constraints aren’t going away, building and querying AI models is becoming cheaper and technologies continue to innovate. —

Tina Li, Sacbee.com, 5 Aug. 2025

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Meanwhile, Pattinson is like a manic roller coaster on screen, increasingly off the rails as the weight of Emma’s reveal has Charlie questioning everything and reacting badly to the situation.

— Brian Truitt, USA Today, 31 Mar. 2026
The leaders of the Senate committee that oversees the FCC are questioning how the agency gave approval to the Nexstar–Tegna transaction, the massive broadcast station merger that already has been paused by a federal court.

— Ted Johnson, Deadline, 31 Mar. 2026