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burning question



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Idioms and Phrases

An urgent or crucial issue under heated discussion. For example, Real estate taxes are always a burning question for the town leaders . This term has exact equivalents in French ( question brûlante ) and German ( brennende Frage ). [Mid-1800s]
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Everyone, from regular Koreans to world leaders, was left with the same burning question:

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How she would be received by the notoriously liberal Hollywood elite became a burning question.

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For conservationists, the ferocious Franklin fire and other recent blazes raise a burning question: Is it possible to break this feedback loop and turn the clock back on an increasingly flammable ecosystem?

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However, having reached the pinnacle of the sport he had dedicated his life to, Stona woke up one day with a burning question on his mind: what next?

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The burning question facing America is: Will the other basic drive, which Freud called Eros and Harris and Walz call joy, provide us with an alternative?

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