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Chris -- 2011-03-08
One can, of course, bait an interlocutor by asking annoying questions. You can also entice (bait) someoen into debate with a good question. Since many people don’t understand what it means to beg a question, it’s easy to run all these activities together. (note- the database already has ‘beckon the question’). About 300 ghits:
Don’t bait the question by asking if it has to do with money, leave it an open-ended question.
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It does bait the question where we get the money to administer the program …
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You are trying to bait the question by debating whether things “truely exist.”
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He baits the question – will they simply adopt western dance ideology or will
they find their own contemporary dance voice?
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Looking around me at the many people of different faiths baits the question, “Aren’t we all asking for the same thing when we pray?
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This, of course, baits the question that is inevitably asked of every modern armourer: Why?
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The end also baits the question, What’s the point?
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Your attempt at question baiting and semantic subterfuge doesn’t impress me.
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