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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“Data centers in space looking pretty appealing right now,” Elon Musk wrote in an early Wednesday post on X, his social-media platform.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026
But right now, I get the sense that Piker is in search of that transcendent optimism himself.
From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2026
One look at the Premier League table shows why Carrick is right not to get carried away.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
That doesn’t prove Apple’s lower capital spending is the right call.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026
“Nah, he does that stuff by himself. He doesn’t need me. In fact, he makes all the snacks around here. That’s the deal, right, Paul?”
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
It also needs other parties in the NWS project not to exercise their pre-emption rights.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026
A few years later, when Pachuco was in Congress, the Los Angeles Herald called him “the pliable dupe of the Southern Pacific Railroad company,” who showed “contempt and disregard for the rights of white workingmen.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026
The NBA reportedly receives millions of dollars annually from the country for the marketing and partnership rights.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
"We're ready to keep fighting for the rights of every Granite Stater alongside him," HRC said, using New Hampshire's nickname.
From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026
He vowed to protect the voting rights of Blacks in the South.
From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow
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
There’s never been a comics character like John Constantine, DC Comics’ trenchcoat-sporting magician and wisecracking righter of wrongs.
From Slate ● Oct. 23, 2014
“You couldn’t be righter, dear,” she said, and she patted his royal robes.
From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
"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
Ali meanwhile had managed the rightest kind of job as an assistant to Fashion Photographer Melvin Sokolsky.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Now, with respect to Wordsworth’s “Gipsy,” I think he is right, and yet I think Hazlitt is right, and yet I think Wordsworth is rightest.
From Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends by John Keats
Dearest: I saw an old woman riding a horse astride: and I was convinced on the spot that this is the rightest way of riding, and that the sidesaddle was a foolish and affected invention.
From An Englishwoman's Love-Letters by Laurence Housman
"I want to thank all of the young campaigners who have been bravely raising their voices about this, and whose dedication will lead to seeing this wrong righted," he said.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
That odd gap between single-stock and benchmark volatility finally righted itself during a recent broad-based selloff, he said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026
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 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
But the atmosphere never quite righted itself, and when we said our good-nights in front of the Black Barn, we parted without our usual little touches on the arms and shoulders.
From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
Saudi Arabia has a good track record of righting its output fast.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026
Nike says it is focused on righting the ship, including by introducing new Chinese-designed products and pushing the brand in a more premium direction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
The former president didn’t pretend that righting the ship would be easy.
From Salon ● Dec. 2, 2025
When Willie “Prophet” Stiggers founded the Black Music Action Coalition at the height of racial justice protests in 2020, the world’s attention was on righting historical wrongs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2025
“We know it’s not your fault, Alter,” Mrs. Brenner said, righting the fallen chairs.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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