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as in responsible
being the one who must meet an obligation or suffer the consequences for failing to do so
you are answerable for your own conduct at all times
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as in resolvable
capable of having the reason for or cause of determined
they say this equation is not answerable
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Recent Examples of answerable
These special prosecutors could investigate and charge high-ranking executive officials but were not answerable to the president.
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Anastasia Boden, National Review, 4 July 2025
OpenAI is currently completely controlled by its nonprofit board, which is purely answerable to the company’s founding mission: ensuring that AI benefits all of humanity.
—Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 20 June 2025
Issue The View from Here Will Trump use an obscure legal loophole to turn the National Guard into an anti-immigrant army answerable only to him?
—Air Mail, 14 June 2025
Like every member of the General Assembly, Stewart essentially is an independent contractor answerable to the voters, not an employee who can be fired or have their pay docked by the House leadership.
—Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 17 May 2025
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Anastasia Boden, National Review, 4 July 2025
OpenAI is currently completely controlled by its nonprofit board, which is purely answerable to the company’s founding mission: ensuring that AI benefits all of humanity.
—Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 20 June 2025
Issue The View from Here Will Trump use an obscure legal loophole to turn the National Guard into an anti-immigrant army answerable only to him?
—Air Mail, 14 June 2025
Like every member of the General Assembly, Stewart essentially is an independent contractor answerable to the voters, not an employee who can be fired or have their pay docked by the House leadership.
—Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 17 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for answerable
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Republican leadership of the House Appropriations Committee, which is responsible for this budget proposal, did not respond to an NPR request for comment on this partisan divide.—
Cory Turner,
NPR,
26 Sep. 2025
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Teams are responsible for booking their own flights Teams that are uncertain about which flight to book sometimes look to producers to follow their lead.—
Skyler Caruso,
PEOPLE,
26 Sep. 2025
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Objects look wider than empty spaces of the same size, and the Hubble Tension may be resolvable if the Milky Way is in a local void.—
Rafil Kroll-Zaidi,
Harpers Magazine,
19 Sep. 2025
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However, from time to time mistakes will be made and we will not be held liable.—
Jacob Camenker,
USA Today,
28 Sep. 2025
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The Lawrence School never reopened While the facility itself has not been found liable for the incidents, The Lawrence School is no longer in operation.—
Jim Riccioli,
jsonline.com,
26 Sep. 2025
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These studies showed that on-orbit refueling was feasible, but a flight demonstration was still needed.—
Matthew S Williams,
Interesting Engineering,
25 Sep. 2025
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According to the team, these computations should make the system feasible for industrial-scale use.—
Jacek Krywko,
ArsTechnica,
25 Sep. 2025
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But beginning in the 1970s, scientists started identifying some puzzles surrounding the Big Bang, noting several properties of the Universe that weren’t explainable within the context of these two notions simultaneously.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
24 Sep. 2025
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But, as is true for most of the things that happen in Black Rabbit, there’s no easy way to explain something that appears, well, easily explainable on the surface.—
Joey Nolfi,
Entertainment Weekly,
20 Sep. 2025
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Chia Seeds Chia seeds contain soluble fiber that helps increase fullness and supports healthy digestion.—
Morgan Pearson,
Verywell Health,
1 Oct. 2025
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Flax is known to promote good digestive health and prevent constipation, thanks to plenty of insoluble fiber and soluble fiber (both of which facilitate digestion and regular bowel movements through slightly different means).—
Christina Chaey,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
30 Sep. 2025
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Those old-fashioned TV-show plots with a premeditated murder committed for some explicable reason, that’s really an anachronism.—
Jennifer Wilson,
New Yorker,
28 Sep. 2025
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Jason Ritter plays Julian’s scenes in this episode with raw emotion, making the character’s choices more explicable, if not entirely forgivable.—
Noel Murray,
Vulture,
18 Apr. 2025
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But with the right policy—carbon tax, border levies, clean procurement—that equation looks increasingly solvable.—
Srishti Gupta,
Interesting Engineering,
21 Sep. 2025
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Small Wins, Scalable Impact Big challenges are easier to tackle when broken into smaller, solvable components.—
Jim O'Brien,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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“Answerable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/answerable. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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