Meaning of question-marked | Babel Free

Definitions

With a question mark.

not-comparable

Examples

“Read through all the questions and: • Put a tick against those that you know you can answer reasonably well. […] • Put a question mark against the others. […] If you have not ticked enough questions to complete the paper, you will need to answer a mixture of ticked and ‘question-marked’ questions.”

“This Blake is, as might be expected, something out of a Bret Easton Ellis novel, complete with trust fund, magazine job, and a propensity to speak in quiet, question-marked sentences?”

“The inciting event that led to the phone call was publication of Wakefield’s question-marked Lancet paper that tried to link vaccines with Crohn’s. Notwithstanding the holes in this comparison of incomparables, the dismissive commentary from FDA scientists, and that telltale “?” at the end of its title, two institutions, as trusted as the journal, also forgave its obvious deficiencies to bring it to the public’s attention.”

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