plural quizzes
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: an eccentric person
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: the act or action of quizzing
specifically : a short oral or written test
quizzed; quizzing
quizzer noun
Examples of quiz in a Sentence
Noun The teacher gave us a quiz on the material we studied yesterday. always eager to put everything down, my boyfriend had to be a quiz and make fun of the actors and costumes in our local theater troupe's latest production Verb quickly quizzed her about the assignment before heading off to class hated the way those relatives would quiz me about my partner and our living arrangements
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Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 15 Apr. 2026 Take this quick quiz to see where your digital habits stand. —Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 15 Apr. 2026
Zack Rosenblatt, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2026 Thiel, whose Founders Fund invested in a nuclear fuel startup and an advanced reactor company, quizzed the would-be official about deregulation and how to rapidly build more nuclear energy capacity, said sources familiar with the conversation. —Avi Asher-Schapiro, ProPublica, 24 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for quiz
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Noun
Let’s place the past on the back burner and put the future on hold for this mini-quiz about what’s going on these days at Disney’s Animal Kingdom. —Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 15 Apr. 2026 Take this quick quiz to see where your digital habits stand. —Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 15 Apr. 2026
Verb
Though the biggest payoff came away from the drills — sitting down for dinner with top prospects, quizzing them in the classroom, getting to know them away from the field, talking to the people at those colleges who knew them best. —Zack Rosenblatt, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2026 Thiel, whose Founders Fund invested in a nuclear fuel startup and an advanced reactor company, quizzed the would-be official about deregulation and how to rapidly build more nuclear energy capacity, said sources familiar with the conversation. —Avi Asher-Schapiro, ProPublica, 24 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for quiz
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“Quiz.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.grautoblog.com/dictionary/quiz. Accessed 25 Apr. 2026.
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