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Explain or justify something to someone, as in If Mary doesn't help us finish this project, she'll have to answer to the boss . This expression was at first used mainly for replying to legal charges. [c. a.d. 950]

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Another constituent, Taylor Mandelbaum, said he was hoping to hear “Lawler get some questions that he doesn’t have a pre-scripted answer to.”

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With the May Bank Holiday on the horizon I think you may know the answer to this one.

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There’s a good chance we won’t have an answer to that by the time a schedule is chosen and released, but you can bet the NFL is monitoring that situation closely.

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The Cleveland Browns traded out of that second spot, even though their general manager described Hunter as football’s answer to Shohei Ohtani.

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“The reason why this is a constitutional crisis,” Schiff, a Democrat, said, “is there’s no clear answer to that question.”

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