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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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 answerability
Quinn Clark, Journal Sentinel, 28 Oct. 2024
Getting this message across to executives—answerable to shareholders—and trying to give them a path forward is hard.
—Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 27 Sep. 2024
The question about the existence (or not) of extraterrestrial life in the Milky Way may therefore be answerable only via an aggressive astronomical search for life itself.
—Mario Livio, Scientific American, 16 Sep. 2024
Immaturity now struts in the public sphere, answerable to no one.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2024
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Adjective
Finally, accountability refers to the publisher being answerable and responsible for their work, such as making corrections.
—Quinn Clark, Journal Sentinel, 28 Oct. 2024
Getting this message across to executives—answerable to shareholders—and trying to give them a path forward is hard.
—Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 27 Sep. 2024
The question about the existence (or not) of extraterrestrial life in the Milky Way may therefore be answerable only via an aggressive astronomical search for life itself.
—Mario Livio, Scientific American, 16 Sep. 2024
Immaturity now struts in the public sphere, answerable to no one.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for answerability
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Failure to maintain regulatory independence from commercial, political and ideological influence is not accountability.—
Katy Huff,
Scientific American,
6 Mar. 2025
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Can Duke power them while keeping your lights on? March 06, 2025 5:00 AM See all stories The Charlotte Observer Mary Ramsey is the local government accountability reporter for The Charlotte Observer.—
Mary Ramsey,
Charlotte Observer,
6 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Those are the people responsible for staffing airports and checking to make sure passengers do not have weapons or explosives.—
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8 Mar. 2025
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Solar wind, as well as solar storms, are responsible for space weather that can affect Earth, creating beautiful auroras near the poles but also interfering with communications satellites and triggering outages of power grids.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN,
8 Mar. 2025
Noun
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An intermediate group has ultimate responsibility for managing the shelter and hires KC Pet Project to run it.—
Mike Hendricks,
Kansas City Star,
7 Mar. 2025
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After Congress passed the No Surprises Act in 2020, the office assumed additional responsibility for setting up and administering the complex process for protecting patients from surprise bills.—
Noam N. Levey,
CNN,
7 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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If a seller overcharges VAT by applying a rate that is too high, article 203 of the VAT Directive states that the seller is liable for the overstated VAT amount shown on the invoice.—
Aleksandra Bal,
Forbes,
2 Mar. 2025
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In an emergency, are HOA and towing company liable?—
Chris Perkins,
Sun Sentinel,
28 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Therefore, if Mars’ deep interior were on the cooler side, then a solid core seems perfectly feasible, the researchers said in the statement.—
Samantha Mathewson,
Space.com,
6 Mar. 2025
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SaaS customers, on the other hand, prioritize intuitive tools, making scalability more feasible without the same labor cost constraints.—
Peter Potapov,
Forbes,
6 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Vitamin E Vitamin E is a soluble vitamin found in some foods, added to foods, or available in supplement form.—
Melissa Nieves,
Verywell Health,
11 Feb. 2025
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These clays can occur when the water source is acidic or can be simply due to longer exposure to water, as the magnesium clays are a bit more soluble.—
John Timmer,
Ars Technica,
20 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Some of them are horrendous but explicable, like Novak Djokovic beating Gael Monfils in all 20 of their meetings; Rafael Nadal’s 18-0 record against Richard Gasquet and Roger Federer’s 17-0 against David Ferrer.—
Charlie Eccleshare,
The Athletic,
22 Jan. 2025
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Plot is set against a backdrop of police negligence in the late 1990s and follows a real-life account of a woman forced to request social housing due to explicable and dangerous occurrences in her own house.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
20 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Fortunately, as 2025 kicks off, this is a solvable problem.—
James Bruni,
Forbes,
5 Mar. 2025
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Moreover, not all problems are solvable—especially not in a world of scarce resources and competing priorities.—
Jacob Hale Russell,
TIME,
4 Mar. 2025
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“Answerability.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/answerability. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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