answering
- present participle of answer.
Example Sentences
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The moments in our interview where he was least sure-footed were answering questions about how he'd manage relationships with Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Anthropic’s effective ban on Claude answering prompts that include the word “pathogen” has created challenges for employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to people familiar with the matter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
The hard thing about answering this question is that workers whose jobs are now exposed to AI have in the past typically had different end-of-career patterns than others.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
A physicist at the University of Birmingham has created a laboratory "mini universe" that brings scientists a step closer to answering one of the biggest questions in physics: What is time?
From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026
The Fox sisters and their mother spent the first months of 1850 answering their front door.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
