begging the questionin a sentence
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That begs the question, "What time do we need to get back?"
begs the question = raises the question
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She is begging the question rather than responding to my objection.
begging the question = erroneously assuming the truth of a premise
- "That begs the question of where we'll find someone."† (source)
- Which begs the question, What is?† (source)
- Which begs the question, how much beer do you need for a SEAL wake?† (source)
- Which begs the question, What have you heard?† (source)
- Which, of course, begs the question as to how I'd be able to pay my bills while working there.† (source)
- "That begs the question.† (source)
- We no longer have time to atomize principles and beg the question.† (source)
- And she would be unfair, beg the question, if a quarrel did spring up; she would cry.† (source)
- She shook the hair again from her eyes, as if brushing away something she did not want to think about, and said, begging the question, "Well, we can't go on like this, can we?"† (source)
- "Of course, that begs the question as to why I covered for you last night."† (source)
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- But even she knew that begged the question.† (source)
- All of which begged the question as to why she'd simply left afterward.† (source)
- Which begs the question, of course, of what you've been sharing with Tuck all these years.† (source)
- "Which begs the question, who will be left to buy silver if the soldiers' wives have to save their money for food and clothing," Hermann remarked, his expression clouding.† (source)
- I am not begging the question we are upon—whether we are to try for nothing till we find immaculate men to work with.† (source)
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