in answer

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: as a response or answer
In answer to your request we are sending a catalog.

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The website is fine, and saying you are not registered in answer to a question is not blunt if delivered with a smile — or without, if the same relative is asking for the fifth time. Judith Martin, Mercury News, 8 May 2025 The Guardian newspaper reports that the former Doctor Who star – who appeared in the 2005 film adaptation of Rowling’s book Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – gave his opinion of Rowling in answer to questions posed by a group of neurodivergent young adults in ITV’s show The Assembly. Caroline Frost, Deadline, 27 Apr. 2025 As if in answer, the Union captain finds his Bible and spares his life. Alison Herman, Variety, 10 Mar. 2025 Both submitted contract proposals in answer to an ICE request to expand detention capacity. Thomas Brewster, Forbes, 29 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for in answer

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