responses

plural of response

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Recent Examples of responses An operator confident in its structural durability should put its responses to all six questions in writing and invite prospects to pose them to every bidder, including itself. Camden Kaminsky, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026 In Live Transcribe, users can also sign responses during conversations. Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 12 Aug. 2026 Users might wait hours for an answer, responses aren’t infinitely scalable, and the person on the other end may offer a perspective that’s personal rather than authoritative. Tatiana Sataua, Fortune, 12 Aug. 2026 Government agencies’ own survey responses provide little evidence that pension benefits are driving any recruitment difficulties. Mariana Trujillo, Oc Register, 11 Aug. 2026 The shift toward alternative responses for these types of incidents is meaningful, new data shows. Steve Scauzillo, Daily News, 11 Aug. 2026 Themes emerged in the responses, which were edited for clarity and length. Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2026 Although it hasn’t been studied in humans, pre-clinical research in female rodents suggests that lower estrogen levels translated to duller behavioral responses to psilocybin and higher levels caused more intense effects. Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 5 Aug. 2026 Finra started the Financial Intelligence Fusion Center in March — a secure portal for Finra and its member firms to share intelligence about fraud threats and to help coordinate responses. Bloomberg, Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for responses
Noun
  • Shelton cruised from there, mixing his primary weapons in with athletic defense that garnered big reactions from the Montreal crowd and deflated Nakashima even more.
    Ava Wallace, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2026
  • But most of those reactions — injection site pain, muscle and joint pain, nausea and vomiting, fever, headache and chills — were mild to moderate and went away within days.
    Elise Haulund, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Carrington’s social media replies are littered with comments calling her violent, along with derogatory statements about her race and sexuality.
    Kase Wickman, Vanity Fair, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Consistent releases, personal replies, and fan listening sessions do not show up cleanly on a dashboard the way follower growth or view counts do.
    Olivia Shalhoup, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • While the Reeder family continues to wait for answers — from psychics or elsewhere — Sophie’s father has begun to make peace with the agonizing situation that has now prompted authorities to seek clarity from the beyond.
    Amanda Musa, CNN Money, 16 Aug. 2026
  • Families, many of whom were having children, learning English and enrolling in college, are now scrambling to find answers on the best way to respond to the government's letters.
    Ximena Bustillo, NPR, 15 Aug. 2026

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“Responses.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/responses. Accessed 16 Aug. 2026.

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