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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"There's going to be lots of speculation, but given it's a police matter right now, that is all we can say."
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
"It wasn't so easy to paint back then, but now everything is very different," says Cristian Juarez, a 29-year-old who works with a prosthesis after losing his right leg in an accident 11 years ago.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
In the next inning, Milwaukee’s Jake Bauers hit a go-ahead single to right off Skubal, scoring Jackson Chourio from second after his double.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
Of the 46 quarterly three-year projections to year-end 2025 since then, only two have been right.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
“Well, your dad showed me a video of your last recital. And he’s right; you’re really talented,” she says.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
Lower basin states have objected, including Arizona, which would be hardest hit because of its lower rights to the river.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Drivers for Uber and Lyft now have collective bargaining rights after a rare compromise between unions and Silicon Valley.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
The league signed an 11-year media rights agreement — worth roughly $2 billion — with Disney, Amazon and NBC that took effect in 2025.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
But they're still strangled by international sanctions linked to terrorism and human rights.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Farmer, who championed human rights and clearly was on the side of the poor, was arguing against it.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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
"Nothing's wrong. Everything's right. Things couldn't be righter. Things could be less tired. They could be less busy. They could be less caffeinated. But they couldn't be righter."
From "Will Grayson, Will Grayson" by John Green and David Levithan
"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
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
Ali meanwhile had managed the rightest kind of job as an assistant to Fashion Photographer Melvin Sokolsky.
From Time Magazine Archive
And I may say that the Westcote Cemetery Association is one of the rightest and tightest little corporations in existence.
From Solander's Radio Tomb by Ellis Parker Butler
Love is a virtue which is the rightest affection of man's soul.
From The Form of Perfect Living and Other Prose Treatises by Geraldine Emma Hodgson
McNamara’s quantitative cost-benefit-analysis approach to business had righted Ford’s postwar problems but proved disastrous when he tried to apply it to the Vietnam War.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 10, 2026
That might have caused some rinks to unravel but this Scottish quartet are the world's best, and soon righted themselves.
From BBC ● Feb. 13, 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
“We are delighted that the Swiss Federal Supreme Court has righted a wrong and given Jordan the chance she deserves to reclaim her bronze medal,” Suh said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2026
So today was focused on getting the rover righted.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
“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
From this point of view, Syria’s revolution might be seen as the righting of a long historic anomaly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2025
It somersaulted and landed upside down, before righting itself upon landing.
From BBC ● May 17, 2025
You would think he would not give that up for some act of revenge or some imagined righting of the wrong.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2025
“Oh. Um...nothing,” Ivy said, scrambling to her feet and righting the lantern.
From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake
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