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as in responsible
being the one who must meet an obligation or suffer the consequences for failing to do so
you are answerable for your own conduct at all times
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as in resolvable
capable of having the reason for or cause of determined
they say this equation is not answerable
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Recent Examples of answerable
Whoever is managing the Vatican Bank is ultimately answerable to a U.S. citizen.
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Robert Goulder, Forbes.com, 2 June 2025
Like every member of the General Assembly, Stewart essentially is an independent contractor answerable to the voters, not an employee who can be fired or have their pay docked by the House leadership.
—Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 17 May 2025
But all of this avoids the challenges of a magical realism where questions about the purpose of poetry, theater, political resistance, life and legacy are answerable only by dying.
—Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2025
How to clean jewelry, then, should be an easily answerable and well-attended to question within your fashion vocabulary.
—Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 25 Apr. 2025
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Robert Goulder, Forbes.com, 2 June 2025
Like every member of the General Assembly, Stewart essentially is an independent contractor answerable to the voters, not an employee who can be fired or have their pay docked by the House leadership.
—Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 17 May 2025
But all of this avoids the challenges of a magical realism where questions about the purpose of poetry, theater, political resistance, life and legacy are answerable only by dying.
—Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2025
How to clean jewelry, then, should be an easily answerable and well-attended to question within your fashion vocabulary.
—Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 25 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for answerable
Adjective
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The district is responsible for most major stadium maintenance and improvement projects.—
Tom Daykin,
jsonline.com,
15 July 2025
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Local governments are responsible for issuing evacuation orders, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).—
Madison E. Goldberg,
People.com,
15 July 2025
Adjective
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That negates accident coverage and can place the driver liable for damages.—
Ticked Off,
The Orlando Sentinel,
25 July 2025
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As such, Tesla is, as employer, vicariously liable for all events.—
Brad Templeton,
Forbes.com,
25 July 2025
Adjective
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Some customers may be eligible for a partial refund if the alternative options offered by the airline aren't feasible, TheStreet said.—
Isabel van Brugen,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 July 2025
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That makes tossing them in your home washing machine more feasible.—
The Washington Post,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
12 July 2025
Adjective
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In the gut, soluble fiber mixes with water to form a gel-like substance.—
Amber J. Tresca,
Verywell Health,
9 July 2025
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Research shows that soluble fiber, especially, can nourish the microbes that keep your intestines functioning normally.—
Mara Santilli,
SELF,
27 June 2025
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Jason Ritter plays Julian’s scenes in this episode with raw emotion, making the character’s choices more explicable, if not entirely forgivable.—
Noel Murray,
Vulture,
18 Apr. 2025
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An extraordinary and welcome event that is not explicable by natural or scientific laws, and is therefore attributed to a divine agency?—
Tim Spiers,
New York Times,
14 Apr. 2025
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The puzzles were all solvable by following the same underlying logic, no matter their length—nothing changes about the process for rearranging the blocks, even if many more blocks need to be moved.—
Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
8 July 2025
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Students were delaying graduation, schools were facing stop-outs, healthcare facilities faced staffing shortages, and patients ultimately received less care—all because the bottleneck had been accepted as an inevitable challenge rather than a solvable problem.—
AllBusiness,
Forbes.com,
13 June 2025
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“Answerable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/answerable. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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