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loaded question
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 “charged with hidden implication.” [Mid-1900s]
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Loaded question, but has there been one especially magical or memorable moment with the show so far?
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, “How are you?” made their way into this new version of “Threesome.”
“How I am is kind of a loaded question,” she said.
Her answer to a simple yet loaded question by an audience member in the city of Berlin — “What was the cause of the United States Civil War?” — showed just how much she continues to struggle with such topics.
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