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Explain or justify something to someone, as in If Mary doesn't help us finish this project, she'll have to answer to the boss. This expression was at first used mainly for replying to legal charges. [c. a.d. 950]
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The answer to both questions should be pretty obvious.
Finally, let’s not end the summer without knowing the answer to the question: Why did Fahey stay for four years at Mission Viejo?
In its answer to the lawsuit, Amazon said that its signup and cancellation procedures complied with federal law by “prominently and repeatedly disclosing key terms, obtaining express informed consent from consumers, and offering a simple cancellation method.”
The more obvious answer to this puzzle, though, is that Oldham is campaigning for a Supreme Court seat, and thinks he can get in the White House’s good graces by handing down whatever gibberish furthers the Republican Party’s goals.
While conditions at all U.S. detention facilities are horrifying, particularly as ICE is detaining a record number of people in over-capacity prisons, early reports suggest that Florida’s answer to CECOT, where immigrants’ guilt or innocence will be judged by soldiers, is achieving a new level of degradation on par with its model in El Salvador.
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