adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a searching/probing question (= one designed to find things out )
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The immigration officer asked me some searching questions.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
question
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You have to ask yourselves some searching questions , particularly about the quality of your relationship prior to the present state of emergency.
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You will therefore be prepared with good answers when confronted with searching questions .
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While he waited he asked us a few basic and searching questions about our discovery.
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Those outside the political arena believe that the Government have made a poor attempt to answer some searching questions .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A searching question: which comes first, the music or the performing resources?
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He was in his mid-thirties, tall and thin, with searching eyes and hair cropped like a Buddhist monk.
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Pulling away, she struggled from the chair, from his searching hands.
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Sometimes examinations, where they did take place, were not a very searching test of ability.