serious question

collocation in English

meaningsofseriousandquestion

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serious
adjective
uk
/ˈsɪə.ri.əs/us
/ˈsɪr.i.əs/
severe in ...
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question
noun
uk
/ˈkwes.tʃən/us
/ˈkwes.tʃən/
a sentence or phrase used to find ...
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(Definition ofseriousandquestionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofserious question

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However, theseriousquestionwhich needs addressing is this.
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However, there are someseriousquestionmarks about public services in relation to care as well.
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The mostseriousquestionto me as a syntactician concerns the notion of phrasal categories in this theory.
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In both cases, the interactive alignment model calls strict modular accounts of language processing intoseriousquestion.
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Any such conclusion calls intoseriousquestionthe generalizability of a theory, but let us entertain this enervated version nonetheless.
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How to prevent the spread of such a screening procedure is aseriousquestionfor health policy.
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That is aseriousquestion.
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This is aseriousquestion.
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There is anotherseriousquestion.
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It was aseriousquestion.
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This was aseriousquestion.
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That was aseriousquestion.
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Turning to evaluation, there can be noseriousquestionthat making legal provisions for proxy and instructional directives is a good thing.
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The priority view has become very popular in moral philosophy, but there is aseriousquestionabout how it should be formalized.
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We are discussing a reallyseriousquestion.
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It is a veryseriousquestion.
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This is a veryseriousquestion.
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That brings me to aseriousquestion.
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Will he answer thatseriousquestion?
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I am asking aseriousquestion.
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This is a ratherseriousquestion.
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There is a far moreseriousquestion.
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Indeed, it is aseriousquestion.
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This debate begs a mostseriousquestion.
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That is a veryseriousquestion.
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