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- didn't answer right away when the detective asked him where he'd been for the last three hours
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- sorry, I haven't seen anyone answering to that description
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- according,
- agreeing,
- checking,
- chording,
- cohering,
- coinciding,
- comporting,
- conforming,
- consisting,
- corresponding,
- dovetailing,
- fitting,
- going,
- harmonizing,
- jibing,
- rhyming
- (also riming),
- sorting,
- squaring,
- tallying
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- equaling
- (or equalling),
- matching,
- paralleling
- aligning
- (also alining),
- lining up,
- registering
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- I don't have a box cutter as such, but will this knife answer the purpose?
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- try to answer this riddle
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“Answering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/answering. Accessed 20 Jan. 2022.
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