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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It’s somewhat of an idyllic place where the seashore is lined with wooden houses; sheep graze along the grassy cliffsides and residents wander around the shops in bathrobes and clogs, right after their morning swims.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
"We have to know how to respect others, the referees, our colleagues. And when someone crosses that line of respect, it's not right - you can't cross that line."
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
Still, the Iran war, 10-year Treasury yields BX:TMUBMUSD10Y near 5% and the Fed’s reinvigorated inflation fight play a role in where investors want to put their money right now.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
They are also right that credit risk isn’t the same thing as an incurred loss.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
Others, wanting food and drink, shrug, turning either left or right on the wooden walk, away from the mysterious man.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
More than 70% of the public shares of Endeavor have filed for appraisal rights in the biggest such case in Delaware history.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
Every contract is different, so it’s unclear how AI products will handle music where those rights are split.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
In a joint statement on Monday, they said they were pursuing legal action to "protect our First Amendment rights and defend the principle that the government does not decide what the press reports".
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
As part of the deal, music rights company GoldState Music has also made a minority investment in Podium, the people said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
As we slowly gained some civil rights, it seemed that both hope and calamity walked hand in hand.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
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
Nevertheless, we still tend to fixate on the things they got right, often with fingers crossed, dreaming that their thoughts might help us make the world righter still.
From Slate ● Jan. 24, 2018
“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
It’s the properest, and rightest, and most convenient, and it’s the name he must have,” he added firmly.
From True Blue by William Henry Giles Kingston
"But seeing you went through with the wedding—well, take it all in all, your leaving of him was about the rightest thing I ever heard of."
From The Rangeland Avenger by Max Brand
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
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
But Dodds, peerless against Norway, righted herself to deliver a magnificent final store and restore GB's two-point advantage.
From BBC ● Feb. 5, 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
Mother righted and steadied herself, smoothing her skirt and adjusting her hat.
From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys
“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
Smith added that the deal would make "real progress" towards righting the "historic wrong" of pay erosion for staff over the past two decades.
From BBC ● Jan. 9, 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
After five consecutive losses, several weeks of mounting frustration, and the most painful collapse imaginable the night before, the Dodgers took a crucial first step toward righting their sinking ship on Sunday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2025
He was about a hundred yards away, having finally come to a stop after glancing off the Saturn and then righting himself down the road, his truck virtually unharmed.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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