lie with

phrasal verb

lay with; lain with; lying with; lies with

—used to say who has the blame or responsibility for something

Responsibility for the accident lies with the company.

literary : to have sex with (someone)

when he first lay with her

Examples of lie with in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The responsibility lies with all stakeholders, from developers and researchers to policymakers and the broader community. —

Olga Megorskaya, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024 Decisions on the penalties and how they are calculated would ultimately lie with Vestager. —

L'oreal Thompson Payton, Fortune Europe, 17 Oct. 2024 The problem lies with the question of how fast space is growing. —

Marc Kamionkowski, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2024 The burden of proof, however, lies with Musk—and demonstrating that OpenAI had planned to defraud him at the time of its founding will be challenging in the absence of clear evidence. —

Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for lie with

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