answerable

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As CEO of one of the only cooperatives in the Fortune 500, today she’s answerable not to shareholders or investors but to thousands of decentralized owner-members.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026

They had put their lives on the line to create a democratic republic, answerable to the people and not a king.

From Salon • Nov. 5, 2025

From Aden to Kuwait, a crescent of Arabian protectorates was governed from Delhi, overseen by the Indian Political Service, policed by Indian troops, and answerable to the Viceroy of India.

From BBC • Jun. 21, 2025

But all of this avoids the challenges of a magical realism where questions about the purpose of poetry, theater, political resistance, life and legacy are answerable only by dying.

From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2025

‘You’re breaking arrest, that’s what you’re doing,’ said the leader ruefully, ‘and I can’t be answerable.’

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien