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hold responsible





VERB
call to account
Synonyms


Example Sentences

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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

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

Who will the American people hold responsible for their suffering?

From Salon • Mar. 25, 2025

Now it would be clear, she said, whom to hold responsible for blowing up their lives.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 14, 2023

There must be some organized group to hold responsible if men in office do badly; some people to warn that the things they are doing are not approved by the majority of the people.

From Theodore Roosevelt by Pearson, Edmund Lester