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hold responsible





VERB
call to account
Synonyms


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Or, as Mo Koyfman, founder at the venture-capital firm Shine Capital, puts it: Companies need a human to hold responsible should anything go wrong.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 9, 2026

Levitsky also pointed out that societies that fail to hold responsible people who attempt to orchestrate a coup have had negative repercussions in the past.

From Salon • Jan. 6, 2026

Questions are mounting as to how the fire at Wang Fuk Court spread so rapidly and who to hold responsible, with many Hong Kongers calling it a "man-made disaster".

From BBC • Nov. 27, 2025

The reasons for abandonment vary, but at least 126,000 of these wells are orphans, meaning there’s no longer an owner or company that state regulators can hold responsible for them.

From New York Times • May 24, 2024

Whom shall we hold responsible for these strange mistakes?

From Social Life in the Insect World by Miall, Bernard




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