answerability

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
  • 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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