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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 âcharged with hidden implication.â [Mid-1900s]Example Sentences
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?"
That idea, along with explorations of the covertly loaded question, âHow are you?â made their way into this new version of âThreesome.â
âHow I am is kind of a loaded question,â she said.
Her answer to a simple yet loaded question by an audience member in the city of Berlin â âWhat was the cause of the United States Civil War?â â showed just how much she continues to struggle with such topics.
Couple that with the flood of mis-and-disinformation on social media, and âto post or not to postâ becomes an extremely loaded question.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American HeritageŸ Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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