aight

British

/ raɪt /

an informal or dialect word for all right

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Example Sentences

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“My man Deion Sanders said we are aight, huh? We aight? Yeah, we aight. We are going to go to the Super Bowl again being aight.”

From Seattle Times • Mar. 4, 2023

“One day Liza came up to me,” he recalled, referring to Colón-Zayas, “and she said, ‘You aight, you aight.

From New York Times • Jan. 10, 2023

This differs from the way these words are pronounced in a so-called General American accent, in which a speaker glides through two different vowel sounds, resulting in something like "aight" in "right."

From Salon • Sep. 6, 2021

"I think it enhances the value of our program if our stadium is full and people stay for 60 minutes in the game, aight," Saban told 247Sports.

From Fox News • Sep. 14, 2019

"Aight, aight, I got another one," Noodles said as the truck passed.

From "When I Was the Greatest" by Jason Reynolds

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