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answer to

verb as in be responsible to

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When Arsenal's Myles Lewis-Skelly scored the first goal of the Tuchel era against Albania in March, becoming the youngest player to score on his senior England debut, aged 18 years and 176 days, he not only looked like a superstar in the making but the answer to the problem left-back position.

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To be clear: I find this kind of status anxiety eye-rollingly deplorable, and I think the actual answer to it is “Be an adult and buck up,” not “Use the government to engineer a white man re-takeover.”

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Private-sector funding and operation is the answer to these recurring infrastructure nightmares.

Mr. Plokhy cites the Labour prime minister, Clement Attlee: “The answer to an atomic bomb on London is an atomic bomb on another great city.”

On pricing, the companies have touted direct-to-consumer drug sales, which cut out intermediaries like insurers and pharmacy benefit managers, as an answer to the president’s demands.

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