answer back
phrasal verb
answered back; answering back; answers back
somewhat informal
: to reply to someone especially in a rude way
impolite children who answer back when their teacher corrects them
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The Terps answered back by marching 75 yards in eight plays and Edwards finding Felton in the back left corner of the end zone for a 12-yard touchdown.
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Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 17 Nov. 2024
But the Red Raiders answered back with a touchdown to regain the lead.
—Ryan Morik, Fox News, 10 Nov. 2024
Throughout the town hall, Harris often brought her answers back to warnings against the former president and his fitness for office.
—Erin Doherty, Axios, 24 Oct. 2024
But by using the holographic dictionary to look at the particles from their other perspective, as a gently curving space-time, physicists can calculate the outcome using Einstein’s gravity equations and then translate the answer back to get a sense of how the nuclei would smash together.
—Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
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Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 17 Nov. 2024
But the Red Raiders answered back with a touchdown to regain the lead.
—Ryan Morik, Fox News, 10 Nov. 2024
Throughout the town hall, Harris often brought her answers back to warnings against the former president and his fitness for office.
—Erin Doherty, Axios, 24 Oct. 2024
But by using the holographic dictionary to look at the particles from their other perspective, as a gently curving space-time, physicists can calculate the outcome using Einstein’s gravity equations and then translate the answer back to get a sense of how the nuclei would smash together.
—Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
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“Answer back.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/answer%20back. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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