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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"There's going to be lots of speculation, but given it's a police matter right now, that is all we can say."
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
"The box office generally slows during the second half of August as kids start returning to school, but right now business remains extremely strong," said industry analyst David A. Gross.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
Max Muncy got to Henderson in the fourth by hitting a tying home run 370 feet to right field.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
Mr. Chin looked left, looked right, and then jumped in and skied down Everest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Social behavior goes beyond the ability to activate the correct muscles or decode the right spoken sounds.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
Drivers for Uber and Lyft now have collective bargaining rights after a rare compromise between unions and Silicon Valley.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
The league signed an 11-year media rights agreement — worth roughly $2 billion — with Disney, Amazon and NBC that took effect in 2025.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
While ABC fell behind the other broadcasters in the late 90s and early 2000s, ESPN—powered by its huge basket of exclusive sports rights and its electric “SportsCenter” highlights show—became the most valuable property in television.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
These include women's rights, unpredictable Taliban edicts, international sanctions and aid cuts during a spiralling humanitarian crisis.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
He also retained the rights to all crew diaries, with the aim of publishing them at the end of a successful trip.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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
Had Documenta 14 been lighter, brighter and righter, not to mention a box-office hit, would its budgetary overdraw have been grounds for disgrace?
From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2017
She hug me around my neck, say, “You’re righter than Miss Taylor.”
From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
"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
Yes," I said, "or, at least, if not that they are right, that they are the rightest we can attain to for the time being, and until we see something righter.
From The Meaning of Good—A Dialogue by G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes) Dickinson
Solomon did, and that's a pretty good example; though I don't suppose that even Solomon always knew for certain when he was doing the rightest thing there was.
From Priscilla's Spies by George A. Birmingham
A thrift-store find some years later righted things: an Art Deco wonder with a ceramic face housed in wood marquetry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
He got his team very badly wrong to begin with, but he righted the wrongs thereafter.
From BBC ● Mar. 1, 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
“It’s upside down. A lot of people say that it was actually upside down before, and we just righted it,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 7, 2026
By the time I freed myself and righted the table, Hamlet had disappeared and not even his footsteps echoed in the empty foyer.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
“The quarter prior revealed some success in righting the ship in the U.S., but significantly worse performance in China, which is becoming a much smaller part of the business,” she added.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026
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
In response, the Home Office said it was "committed to righting the wrongs of Windrush".
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2025
"Master and I go around righting things that are wrong in the world and fighting evil."
From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios
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