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ask questions

Meaning

To ask questions is to seek information or clarity by putting questions to someone. It shows curiosity, checks understanding, or challenges ideas. You might do it in class, at work, or during an interview.

Examples

There are years that ask questions and years that answer. Zora Neale Hurston

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. C. S. Lewis

In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer. Oscar Wilde

Do not ask questions of fairy tales. Jewish Proverb

Fools ask questions that wise men cannot answer. Dutch Proverb

If you really want honesty, then don't ask questions you don't really want the answer to. Myanmar Proverb

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