Synonyms for questioning
ques·tion·ing

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1. questioning, inquiringadjective

   a request for information

   Synonyms:
   inquiring

   Antonyms:
   trusting, incurious, unperplexed, trustful

2. questioning, quizzicaladjective

   perplexed (as if being expected to know something that you do not know)

   "he had a quizzical expression"

   Synonyms:
   speculative, teasing, wondering(a), inquisitive, sceptical, skeptical, quizzical, doubting, mocking

   Antonyms:
   trusting, incurious, unperplexed, trustful

3. doubting, questioning, skeptical, scepticaladjective

   marked by or given to doubt

   "a skeptical attitude"; "a skeptical listener"

   Synonyms:
   speculative, unbelieving, wondering(a), inquisitive, sceptical, skeptical, quizzical, doubting, disbelieving

   Antonyms:
   trusting, incurious, trustful, unperplexed

4. inquisitive, speculative, questioning, wondering(a)adjective

   showing curiosity

   "if someone saw a man climbing a light post they might get inquisitive"; "raised a speculative eyebrow"

   Antonyms:
   trustful, unperplexed, incurious, trusting

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1. questioningadjective

   Synonyms:
   interrogatory, inquisitive, quizzical, inquisitorial, catechistic, curious, heckling

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1. List of paraphrases for "questioning":

   interrogation, interrogations, interrogating, interviewing, interview, examination, challenging, interrogate, doubting

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1. Kazi Muhammad Ziauddin:

   He said there is no way we can open or scan his bag, at first he said 'This is an electric motor.' After further questioning he changed his mind and told us, 'These are cipher machines and very confidential.'.

2. Andrei Soldatov:

   It’s part of the Russian national identity that the Russian army helped to win the war (against Hitler’s Germany) and now it feels absolutely wrong because this message was used by Putin. You start questioning the history.

3. Thomas Steinkraus-Koch:

   This (WhatsApp) chat and questioning of a suspect has shown that the Afghan met the gunman directly before the gun attack at what was later the scene of the crime.

4. Randi Weingarten:

   This strike is also about questioning a charter school model that seeks to run education as a business rather than a contribution to our kids' futures. Acero executives are more interested in profits than students.

5. Corbin Trent:

   The way she operates, whether it's to come up with lines of questioning or lines of messaging, or how to present things to her constituents or to the American people or to the party -- it's continuous listening and talking, when Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez using social media, that is essentially a practice run and a conversation that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's working and developing.