Synonyms for asking
ask·ing

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1. request, askingnoun

   the verbal act of requesting

   Synonyms:
   request, postulation, petition

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1. • Speech Act

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1. askingnoun

   Synonyms:
   petition, solicitation, inquiry, quiz, interrogation, question, instance, entreaty, supplication, request, importunity, application, imploration, invitation

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1. List of paraphrases for "asking":

   requesting, request, ask, wondering, demanding, application, calling, seeking, requests

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1. Actor Timothee Chalamet:

   I totally get why you're asking that.

2. Ryan Reynolds:

   I had been on the show a number of times, he was asking me about perhaps coming on again. I was shooting in Atlanta and was unable to do it..., when you speak with people like that that you grew up watching and suddenly you are talking to them on the phone, you start to reflect.

3. Sage Brennan:

   Everyone I talk to in China is always asking for new brands.

4. Connie Rice:

   This whole vision seemed crazy 25 years ago, you realize we were asking a bunch of macho men to be social workers with a badge and a gun -- you may as well have been asking them to be Rockettes.

5. Justin Amash:

   No matter your circumstance, I'm asking you to join me in rejecting the partisan loyalties and rhetoric that divide and dehumanize us, if we continue to take America for granted, we will lose it.