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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Never thought he was the man for this job - and he's proving me right, big time.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
“Honestly, man, this right here makes us want to wear the number more,” Damien said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
“I think it speaks to how young people feel right now: ‘Whether this hits or it doesn’t, it doesn’t matter.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
And right now, that intellect needs all the collective nutrition it can find.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
A brain "address" can specify left or right hemisphere, the lobe, the nearest ridge or fold, and whether the location is on top or bottom, inside or out, and front or back.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
When colleges are found in violation of federal civil rights law, they almost always reach compliance through voluntary agreements.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
A separate provision of the Protect College Sports Act would extend antitrust exemption to schools that collectively sell their media rights through a qualifying entity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
"There is no doubt that the big six clubs, as global brands in their own rights, have always been able to generate the highest fees," Maguire said.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
However, some civil rights advocates note that Compliant Technologies has advised against using shock gloves on pregnant women, children and people with heart issues.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
“You should go to the courts and stand up for the rights for the AIDS-infected on trial,” one man said through the translator.
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
“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
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
I wonder if that ain’t the rightest way to sharpshoot, anyway.
From Dorothy on a Ranch by Evelyn Raymond
"Then there's nothing to fear, for she's doing the rightest kind of right."
From Jewel's Story Book by Clara Louise Burnham
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
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
“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
He looked over and saw that the wave had capsized the Lillian B. Womrath but that she had righted herself and was sailing on her course, close by.
From "Stuart Little" by E.B. White
Nike says it is focused on righting the ship, including by introducing new Chinese-designed products and pushing the brand in a more premium direction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
“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
Chief Executive of Carers UK Helen Walker said the government were "righting a clear wrong" and "addressing this injustice head on".
From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2025
When Willie “Prophet” Stiggers founded the Black Music Action Coalition at the height of racial justice protests in 2020, the world’s attention was on righting historical wrongs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2025
Mercy pulled herself about the room, righting an overturned chair, straightening out the scuffed primers.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
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