simple question

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meanings of simpleand question

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simple
adjective
uk /ˈsɪm.pəl/ us /ˈsɪm.pəl/
easy to understand or do; ...
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question
noun
uk /ˈkwes.tʃən/ us /ˈkwes.tʃən/
a sentence or phrase used to find ...
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Examples of simple question

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Unfortunately this is not a simplequestion.
Now the simplequestion is this.
Empirically, this is a relatively simplequestion.
As they say, this is a deceptively simplequestion.
In our view, this is a simplequestion of algebra.
Roberts, again, asks a simplequestion: where was this stampede headed?
It is not a simplequestion to answer: both have some truth on their side.
The simplequestion of whether borders can be used as explanatory variables has no simple answer.
The earliest methods of preference elicitation (simplequestion and rating scale) were the most simplistic.
This is a simplequestion for which there is no simple answer.
Can we not agree upon an answer to this one, simplequestion?
This is a simplequestion that in conventional software engineering, like object-oriented systems, cannot be answered without difficulties.
At the heart of my exploration is this seemingly simplequestion: what constitutes a ' good' rock autobiography?
This is a deceptively simplequestion but it leads directly to core debates and divides which emerged in the 1980s.
To make it clear, let us begin with a simplequestion: what is the core of ancient rhetorical practice?
Then, a simplequestion that elicits any one of these atomic facts represents a benchmark for assessing its informativeness.
It was not a simplequestion of monarchism versus republicanism, a defence of colonial practices versus independent ones.
That is the simplequestion.
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That is my simplequestion.
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It was a simplequestion.
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I ask the simplequestion.
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