answer for (someone)

idiom

: to say what someone else thinks : to give the opinion of (someone else)

I like the proposal myself, but I can't answer for my boss.

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And Trump’s executive orders have already made clear that any federal grantee will have to answer for its own DEI initiatives. —

Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 24 Jan. 2025 That brings us to Nvidia's answer for that problem: DLSS 4 and its Multi-Frame Generation feature. DLSS 4 and Multi-Frame Generation As a refresher, Nvidia's DLSS Frame Generation feature, as introduced in the GeForce 40-series, takes DLSS upscaling one step further. —

Ars Technica, 24 Jan. 2025 Which means, for people who can’t wait 75 days to return to for-you-pages, coughing up a few hundred online for a secondhand phone might be the only answer for now. —

Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 23 Jan. 2025 Nets center Nic Claxton had no answer for Towns at either end of the court early. —

C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 22 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for answer for (someone)

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