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burning question

  1. An urgent or crucial issue under heated discussion. For example, Real estate taxes are always a burning question for the town leaders. This term has exact equivalents in French (question brûlante) and German (brennende Frage). [Mid-1800s]



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OK, so maybe it’s not a burning question.

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Everyone, from regular Koreans to world leaders, was left with the same burning question:

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How she would be received by the notoriously liberal Hollywood elite became a burning question.

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However, having reached the pinnacle of the sport he had dedicated his life to, Stona woke up one day with a burning question on his mind: what next?

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