Ask
Ask verb - To put a question or questions to.
Set
Set verb - To cover and warm eggs as the young inside develop.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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There's a set of ask blogs on Tumblr for the X-Men, mostly based on First Class, which has now extended to ask blogs for their inexplicably-sentient clothing and inanimate objects.
Source: Character Blog - Ask Flutterstalker: A blog set in a Grimdark world where Fluttershy has become an outcast due to stalking her friends and committing murder, and her closest companion is an Eldritch Abomination.
Source: Blog / Ask a Pony -
The final scene of Alias is set a few years into the future: Dixon visits Sydney and Vaughn, who are living in peace by the sea with their two children, to ask for their help catching Sark (again).
Source: Distant Finale
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Set and Ask. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/ask/set
Ask & Set. N.p., 2016. Web. 14 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/ask/set>.
Set or Ask. 2016. Accessed August 14, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/ask/set.
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