1
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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2
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
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.
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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
The question is answered and unanswered and answerable and unanswerable.
—Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 27 Mar. 2025
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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
The question is answered and unanswered and answerable and unanswerable.
—Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 27 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for answerable
Adjective
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While the statue itself would be paid for by the people of France, the Americans would be responsible for its prodigious base.—
Mo Rocca
July 6,
CBS News,
6 July 2025
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Interestingly, research has found that asthmatics tend to have lower levels of IgG. While camel milk is rich in these bioactive compounds, the study didn’t isolate or quantify which specific components were responsible for the observed effects.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
6 July 2025
Adjective
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The president was also found liable for defaming Carroll over her allegations.—
Sonam Sheth,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 July 2025
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According to her July 2025 report to the UN Human Rights Council, Albanese claimed the U.S. may be ‘liable for the international crime of aggression’ for President Trump's strikes on three Iranian nuclear sites.—
Jasmine Baehr,
FOXNews.com,
9 July 2025
Adjective
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The value here is easy to see; had there been no incentive, those projects might not have been feasible at all.—
Roger Valdez,
Forbes.com,
4 July 2025
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This project, if deemed feasible, would include a fitness center, community dining, commercial kitchen, meeting rooms, among other amenities.—
Vanessa Swales,
jsonline.com,
3 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
Adjective
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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 19 Jul. 2025.
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