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  • noun Plural form of inquirer.

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Examples

  • It said: "A dress-basket without label at Cannon Street detained for identification suspicious sounds from inside detain inquirers dynamite machine suspected."

    New Treasure Seekers Edith 1925

  • Why do these "inquirers" even bother with the question-mark?

    Archive 2009-11-01 2009

  • With regard to the chapter called "Common-Sense and Divorce Law Reform," which now has been added to this edition, I wish to express my indebtedness to Dr. Jane Walker and the group of "inquirers" over which she presided, for the memorandum on Divorce which they drew up and published in the

    Sex and Common-Sense 1916

  • There are, unfortunately, no converts, but there are three hopeful "inquirers," whose conversion would be the more speedy the more likely they were to obtain employment afterwards.

    AN AUSTRALIAN IN CHINA Morrison, George Ernest, 1862-1920 1895

  • There are, unfortunately, no converts, but there are three hopeful "inquirers," whose conversion would be the more speedy the more likely they were to obtain employment afterwards.

    An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma George Ernest Morrison 1891

  • Some time afterwards, being released, he was asked at a public feast, his opinion of some of the king’s verses; upon which, knowing that the inquirers were the tyrant’s agents, he answered, by exclaiming aloud, “Lead me back to the quarries!”

    The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3

  • And when I hear them, though I often understand the source of their concern, I am nevertheless greatly saddened, for such questions mean that the inquirers have not really known me, my commitment or my calling.

    Chris Weigant: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Vietnam Speech Chris Weigant 2011

  • No-one here would ever say that compared with this, the current tally of 210 documented deaths in country Victoria on Black Saturday (February 7 last) seems small, but it is the horrifying manner in which so many of these people died that appears to move sympathetic inquirers.

    Archive 2009-03-01 2009

  • I read with ardour those works, so full of genius and discrimination, which modern inquirers have written on these subjects.

    Chapter 3 2010

  • And when I hear them, though I often understand the source of their concern, I am nevertheless greatly saddened, for such questions mean that the inquirers have not really known me, my commitment or my calling.

    Chris Weigant: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Vietnam Speech Chris Weigant 2011

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