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liable

adjective as in answerable, responsible

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The Danish tax authority was left licking its wounds, after failing to establish that a large group of defendants, including Mr Bains, were liable for huge losses it had suffered.

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It also requires volunteers to acknowledge the significant risks of injury and death by participating in the brigade, and that the Fire Department is not liable if something goes wrong.

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He vetoed, however, a bill that would have made tech companies legally liable for harm caused by AI models.

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He has been compared to a pop star and certainly is liable to a few unconventional antics.

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The Colorado Supreme Court accepted that distinction, concluding that regulating pollution is different from holding “upstream producers” liable for selling the products that cause it.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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