answerable
Example Sentences
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Those are answerable questions—and they are the ones actually worth asking.
From Barron's ● May 30, 2026
As CEO of one of the only cooperatives in the Fortune 500, today she’s answerable not to shareholders or investors but to thousands of decentralized owner-members.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026
She said it meant Lowe was "answerable to the House" about the allegations, and that it was not "the constitutional role of the court to supervise or interfere with that".
From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2026
They had put their lives on the line to create a democratic republic, answerable to the people and not a king.
From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2025
‘You’re breaking arrest, that’s what you’re doing,’ said the leader ruefully, ‘and I can’t be answerable.’
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
