open to question
idiom
: not known for sure : uncertain
Her intentions are open to question.
The author's exact meaning is open to question.
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Whether those services are useful is open to question — after a 2017 data breach at the credit reporting firm Equifax exposed the personal data of 143 million Americans, the identity theft service LifeLock trumpeted its protective services (at $29.99 a month).
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Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2024
But whether his explanation has helped or hurt his cause is open to question.
—Adam Liptak, New York Times, 30 May 2024
Whether such logic, and such a tranquil plea for moral decency, will lay the rumors to rest, and shame the rancorous, is open to question.
—Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2024
But the gesture’s sincerity was open to question, because Mobutu himself helped ensure Lumumba’s death, ordering him to be flown handcuffed to a secessionist province where he was shot by firing squad, his body then dismembered and dissolved in acid.
—Michela Wrong, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2023
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Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2024
But whether his explanation has helped or hurt his cause is open to question.
—Adam Liptak, New York Times, 30 May 2024
Whether such logic, and such a tranquil plea for moral decency, will lay the rumors to rest, and shame the rancorous, is open to question.
—Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2024
But the gesture’s sincerity was open to question, because Mobutu himself helped ensure Lumumba’s death, ordering him to be flown handcuffed to a secessionist province where he was shot by firing squad, his body then dismembered and dissolved in acid.
—Michela Wrong, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2023
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“Open to question.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/open%20to%20question. Accessed 2 Dec. 2024.
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