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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So why does it feel so hard for a cost-conscious buyer to find an affordable car right now?
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026
Many people will stop reading right now because honestly, do you care what happens to those on death row?
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
It’s difficult to find the right words for the end of something that has meant so much to so many people.
From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2026
Marco Chan, an aviation expert at Kingston University, told the BBC the threats were "most likely a hoax, but the system is right to treat it as real".
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
They have to learn the right posture, tone of voice, and mannerisms needed so that they aren’t perceived as a threat.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
The justices said there was insufficient evidence to show the three producers were aware they could be violating Crichton's contractual rights.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
The text acknowledged her "significant personal contribution to humanitarian support for Ukraine, and for active human rights and charitable work."
From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2026
The movie chronicles the famed photographer’s life and 60-year career shooting not just icons of the fashion and film worlds but also mental institutions, the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026
Tonight’s results crystallized that Americans still tend to favor reproductive rights when the issue is on the ballot.
From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2026
In the library, Ophie discovered a finely dressed white man speaking with an unseen partner about the rights of the African.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
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
She hug me around my neck, say, “You’re righter than Miss Taylor.”
From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
"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
What you said was all rightest ever; rightest of anything I ever heard.
From Michael O'Halloran by Gene Stratton-Porter
"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
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
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
Celtic's season has been righted, and O'Neill will leave with his heralded legacy intact, and if anything, improved.
From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2025
The room tilted sideways, and then it righted itself again.
From "Louisiana's Way Home" by Kate DiCamillo
Saudi Arabia has a good track record of righting its output fast.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026
Kennedy says in the filing that righting the wrong would mean “enforcement of USC’s promises” as well as “appropriate relief for the plaintiff.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 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
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
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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