answerable

Example Sentences

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Those are answerable questions—and they are the ones actually worth asking.

From Barron's • May 30, 2026

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

She told Newyddion S4C: "Once these reports exist, who exactly is responsible for implementing recommendations? And who is answerable if they aren't implemented?"

From BBC • Nov. 1, 2025

Within twenty years at the most, he re-fleeted, the huge and simple question, “Was life better before the Revolution than it is now?” would have ceased once and for all to be answerable.

From "1984" by George Orwell