[Ads-l] to question whether

[Jonathan Lighter]

'To ask or wonder whether.'

Maybe we've discussed this (which has become pervasive on cable news over
the past few years), but here's an especially good ex.:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-says-hes-heard-interesting-013743209.html

"In 1947, a rancher discovered unidentifiable debris in his sheep pasture
outside Roswell. Air Force officials said it was a crashed weather balloon,
but skeptics questioned whether it was in fact an extraterrestrial flying
saucer."


JL

-- 
"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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