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  • noun See inquirer.

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  • noun Alternative form of inquirer.

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  • noun someone who asks a question

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Examples

  • "Does this mean that any legitimate inquiry into the qualifications, competence and performance of the official in and of itself labels the enquirer a racist?

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

  • 'Not only did Hicks Jnr label the enquirer an' idiot ', he followed this up with an expletive-ridden tirade.

    Football.co.uk news feed 2010

  • Then let me tell you that you are doing just the reverse; the encouragement which you offer would have been all very well had I myself believed that I knew what I was talking about: to declare the truth about matters of high interest which a man honours and loves among wise men who love him need occasion no fear or faltering in his mind; but to carry on an argument when you are yourself only a hesitating enquirer, which is my condition, is a dangerous and slippery thing; and the danger is not that I shall be laughed at (of which the fear would be childish), but that I shall miss the truth where I have most need to be sure of my footing, and drag my friends after me in my fall.

    The Republic 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855

  • We actually found her first and she told me it was B.S. that the "enquirer" story was made up, that she says that they paid these two women who talked to them.

    CNN Transcript Nov 30, 2009 2009

  • They at least raise questions and we should try to answer them, I much prefer that to seeing posts from the likes of that depraved "enquirer"

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • Drudge used to write for the world nut daily and the national enquirer, right?

    Think Progress » Conservatives Falsely Claim New Obama Nuke Policy Prevents Nuclear Retaliation Against Chem/Bio Attack 2010

  • I see more believeable reports on Yahoo and the national enquirer!

    Poll: Majority don't approve of Palin 2009

  • You'd get more truth out of the national enquirer than any news network these days.

    Networks respond to false Fox ad 2009

  • I'd usually get a laugh out of that line before the enquirer invariably launched into a broadside on biased journalism, sensational reporting, the media's moral bankruptcy, its role as a propagandist and apologist for those in power, and corporate influence on the news.

    Gail Vida Hamburg: Castle Owners of the Fourth Estate Flog Usurper, Julien Assange Gail Vida Hamburg 2010

  • What the enquirer has in mind is a Missa solitaria, Mass at which no one assists.

    On "Private" Masses 2009

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