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Idioms and Phrases

A question heavy with meaning or emotional impact, as in When he inquired after Helen's ex-husband, that was a loaded question . This term employs loaded in the sense of “charged with hidden implication.” [Mid-1900s]
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Early into his new book The Blue Plate: A Food Lover's Guide to Climate Chaos, ecologist Mark Easter poses a playful, but loaded, question: "How could a morning piece of toast or a plate of dinner pasta be such a world-altering culprit?"

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That idea, along with explorations of the covertly loaded question, “How are you?” made their way into this new version of “Threesome.”

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“How I am is kind of a loaded question,” she said.

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Her answer to a simple yet loaded question by an audience member in the city of Berlin — “What was the cause of the United States Civil War?” — showed just how much she continues to struggle with such topics.

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Couple that with the flood of mis-and-disinformation on social media, and “to post or not to post” becomes an extremely loaded question.

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