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right

[rahyt] / raɪt /




ADJECTIVE
conservative politically
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONGEST
WEAK


ADJECTIVE
opposite of left
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK










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LA28 also will have the right to sell the shirts through its merchandising operation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

"But in fact, as ever, Michael was right because it just gives the show... you're more curious about it. Is that how they really are?"

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

Although those figures are important for determining Tesla’s financial health, there’s only one metric investors really care about right now, according to some experts, and that is capital expenditures.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

Are you under pressure to deliver significant value from AI right now?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

“I’m sure you’re right, but my dad is making us go to Candace’s art gallery tomorrow. She’s unveiling some new artist.”

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

The Unite union has hit out at a plan by NatWest to reduce the rights of 30,000 of its employees to work from home.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

The First Peoples' Assembly of Victoria said Haines was a "staunch supporter" of Indigenous rights as well.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

NEW DELHI—Before joining a protest last week over voting rights, Abhijeet Dipke, the founder of the Cockroach Janta Party youth movement, issued a public challenge to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

That tendency culminated in the now-legendary 2025 National Security Strategy, a document that offers most presidential administrations a chance to deliver boilerplate language about shared values, human rights and democracy.

From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026

At the civil rights museum, I saw videos of marches where folks were singing that song.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas

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

Had Documenta 14 been lighter, brighter and righter, not to mention a box-office hit, would its budgetary overdraw have been grounds for disgrace?

From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2017

“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 will I tell you the rightest way and the shortest to Jerusalem. 

From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville

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

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 got his team very badly wrong to begin with, but he righted the wrongs thereafter.

From BBC ● Mar. 1, 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

There was always that great moment when the wrapped bulk swung clear of the window and twisted dizzily in the air for a moment before it righted itself.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

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 quarter prior revealed some success in righting the ship in the U.S., but significantly worse performance in China, which is becoming a much smaller part of the business,” she added.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 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

"Master and I go around righting things that are wrong in the world and fighting evil."

From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios


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