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verb (intr, preposition)

to be liable or responsible for (a person's actions, behaviour, etc)

to vouch for or speak on behalf of (a person)

to suffer or atone for (one's wrongdoing)

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CAN YOU ANSWER THESE COMMON GRAMMAR DEBATES?

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His boss, whom he admires, is waiting to meet with him about the big project.

His boss, who he admires, is waiting to meet with him about the big project.

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We need to recover and grow the idea that the proper answer to bad speech is more and better speech.
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Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.
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Take the chief metric of the war in Vietnam—body counts, which ultimately did not answer whether the strategy was working.
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This reporter knocked at the Wilkins home on Tuesday morning but received neither an answer nor the business end of a shotgun.
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They already know the answer, but they know by feigning ignorance they can create all this debate about it.
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The Goliath wouldn't answer; the Dublin said the force was coming off, and we could not get into touch with the soldiers at all.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I|Ian Hamilton
I stooped down and asked him how he felt himself, but he made no answer, and evidently did not recollect me.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
To answer the last question, Why people are not equally supplied?
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The sailors were all in amazement, and asked me a thousand questions, which I had no inclination to answer.
Gulliver's Travels|Jonathan Swift
Hys ignored the acid tone of her answer and sat down on the couch next to them.
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