as in accountability
willingness or obligation to explain one's actions or to admit being the cause of a problem
Without any answerability to the people, the despot's actions were motivated by a desire for personal enrichment.
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By accusing a one-time head of the nation’s top law enforcement agency of lying to Congress and obstructing a legislative inquiry, prosecutors have placed questions of truthfulness, accountability, and political motive at the center of a rare criminal proceeding.—
Robert Alexander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 Oct. 2025 -
In Scott’s case, though, progressives who would usually be attuned to abuses in the Australian criminal-justice system are the same figures demanding accountability for unredressed hate crimes.—
Eren Orbey,
New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2025
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Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson has taken responsibility for the jailbreak but also blamed a lack of resources, from faulty locks to staffing shortages, as well as the escapees' network of accomplices.—
Rachel Treisman,
NPR,
9 Oct. 2025
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Risk-mapping across business units, reassessing compliance as a governance responsibility, and exploring voluntary certifications or alliances establish new baselines for trust and safety.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
9 Oct. 2025
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“Answerability.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/answerability. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.
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