Example Sentences

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It’s the quality of the questions and willingness of the answerer that has kept the mailbag from trying to do too much.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 15, 2018

Rakoff: Like many unrealistic hypothetical questions, your question is flawed, Joel, because it asks the answerer to assume a set of facts—the certainty of guilt, competency, etc. —that are most unlikely ever to exist.

From Slate • Apr. 28, 2017

Though Senator Norris shunned the Watson questions, they did find an able and authentic answerer among the Progressives.

From Time Magazine Archive

So asks the farmer, and threatens with a ballot the answerer who replies that food is less calculable than money.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Yes, daughter, for the Bible tells us God is the hearer and answerer of prayer."

From Elsie's Motherhood by Finley, Martha