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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