right
- fair, just adj.
- accurate, precise adj.
- appropriate, fitting adj.
- sane, healthy adj.
- conservative politically adj.
- opposite of left adj.
- accurately, precisely adv.
- appropriately, suitably adv.
- fairly, justly adv.
- beneficially adv.
- directly, without delay adv.
- privilege n.
- justice, morality n.
- fix, correct v.
Example Sentences
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But a lot would have to go right to keep the AI boom humming.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
“And we’ve got a really good group of coaches right here, and they found it right away.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
Until now its members have sat on the right fringe of the state parliament, but ahead of Tuesday's inaugural session it successfully argued that it should now sit in the centre.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
That might seem alarming, but Wald said it isn’t necessarily a cause for concern — at least not right now.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
But it’s futile, because after lunch, as I go rushing to my locker, who is right behind me?
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
"We will not let ourselves be intimidated, and we will not sit by when rights are curtailed either here or for people in the state," she said.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
The group tried to push the state legislature to adopt bills aimed at stopping steep rent increases and protecting tenants’ rights to organize.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
Previously, the awards rotated yearly between the big four broadcast networks—ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC—with the annual rights valued at approximately $9.5 million, according to the Television Academy’s most recent annual report.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
“Parents are children’s natural providers and protectors,” said Harmeet K. Dhillon, assistant attorney general for civil rights.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
Even as a free man in Virginia, Isaac lived under written laws that restricted the legal rights of free blacks and the code of unwritten rules that applied to black people.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
The time has never been righter, it seems to me.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 16, 2022
Cat burglar, con artist, master of disguise, Lupin is also a brilliant detective and righter of wrongs.
From Salon ● Feb. 15, 2021
“As a solver of mysteries and a righter of historical wrongs, I live for this stuff,” Zax said.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 15, 2019
Nevertheless, we still tend to fixate on the things they got right, often with fingers crossed, dreaming that their thoughts might help us make the world righter still.
From Slate ● Jan. 24, 2018
For days she thought about this, and the more she thought, the righter it seemed.
From "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman
"I don't fancy her chances much either way," said everyone else, and they were probably the rightest of all.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 11, 2010
It's got pictorial dazzle and an uncommon generosity of spirit, and it ends with the sweetest, rightest shot of the movie year.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ali meanwhile had managed the rightest kind of job as an assistant to Fashion Photographer Melvin Sokolsky.
From Time Magazine Archive
What you said was all rightest ever; rightest of anything I ever heard.
From Michael O'Halloran by Gene Stratton-Porter
We must neither of us, perhaps, expect absolutely of the other what is the rightest thing to be done: and yet few folks, so young as we are, better know what the rightest is.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3 by Samuel Richardson
That odd gap between single-stock and benchmark volatility finally righted itself during a recent broad-based selloff, he said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026
He righted the ship with a birdie at the par-five 13th, where he missed the green but chipped to three feet from dense rough well below the green.
From Barron's ● Feb. 1, 2026
“We are delighted that the Swiss Federal Supreme Court has righted a wrong and given Jordan the chance she deserves to reclaim her bronze medal,” Suh said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2026
Doesn’t such an injustice need to be righted as soon as possible?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 5, 2026
The world spun as he righted himself and leaped away before the grootslang could strike again.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
Saudi Arabia has a good track record of righting its output fast.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026
Chief Executive of Carers UK Helen Walker said the government were "righting a clear wrong" and "addressing this injustice head on".
From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2025
From this point of view, Syria’s revolution might be seen as the righting of a long historic anomaly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2025
After five consecutive losses, several weeks of mounting frustration, and the most painful collapse imaginable the night before, the Dodgers took a crucial first step toward righting their sinking ship on Sunday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2025
He kept walking, slipping on rocks here and there, righting himself, slipping again, walking, walking, walking.
From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby
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