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• But the Air Force's answer to this, well, check out this tweet.
  — Fox News Staff, Fox News, 13 June 2023
• The answer to the above is a simple three word rule: Copy Kate Moss.
  — Alice Newbold, Vogue, 3 Apr. 2024
• But the real answer to the question of who’s in charge is Haynes.
  — Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2023
• Here, the Prince of Wales must answer to his father, the king (played by Stephen Fry).
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 10 Aug. 2023
• The answer to this week’s contest crossword is a word found in one of the clues.
  — WSJ, 17 Aug. 2023
• Don’t worry: No one in the GOP knows the answer to that question!
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 4 Nov. 2023
• The simple answer to your question is clear from the clip.
  — WIRED, 13 Oct. 2023
• From Asher’s perch on the tree, the answer to that question would seem to be no.
  — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2024
• The answer to that question, the agency says, is not too long ago.
  — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Dec. 2023
• There’s no one-size-fits-all answer to weight gain or weight loss.
  — Andi Breitowich, Women's Health, 31 Aug. 2023
• The answer to that outrage was to move the killing back inside the courthouse, with the use of the death penalty.
  — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
• The answer to this week’s crossword contest is a four-letter part of the body.
  — WSJ, 5 Oct. 2023
• So, the answer to your question is the Post is obsessed because of you.
  — Will Oremus, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2023
• Disney has 20 days to file an answer to the state lawsuit.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 28 July 2023
• Holmes called up each driver to answer to their charges before the judge.
  — Samantha Sunne, ProPublica, 16 Nov. 2023
• So for some Jews, the answer to the question is obvious.
  — Jonathan Weisman, New York Times, 10 Dec. 2023
• The most popular answer to this question is what is known as the 4% rule.
  — Rob Berger, Forbes, 30 Mar. 2024
• Given the team’s depth and defensive chops, the answer to that question is yes.
  — Matt Schubert, The Denver Post, 6 Mar. 2024
• The hawthorn tree outside reveals the answer to the riddle from the winter before: the flowers are red.
  — Yiyun Li, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
• The answer to this week’s contest crossword is a four-letter word.
  — WSJ, 23 June 2023
• There’s no single answer to what a car shopper should do, though.
  — Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 10 Sep. 2023
• The answer to this week’s contest crossword is a five-letter word.
  — WSJ, 14 Sep. 2023
• The answer to this week’s contest crossword is a six-letter word.
  — WSJ, 9 Nov. 2023
• The Mafia arose as the answer to this problem, multiplied hundreds of times over.
  — Mark Sappenfield, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Mar. 2024
• That was one more answer to why the game has become so popular.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2024
• An answer to that question may have come from Toney himself.
  — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 28 Jan. 2024
• So in terms of how the government and the state is made manifest in people’s lives, the answer to that is police.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2024
• Only now, there is so much more to consume (all those series!) to know the answer to that question.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 8 Nov. 2023
• Since 1945, the answer to that question has been unknowable.
  — Peter D. Feaver, Foreign Affairs, 19 Feb. 2024
• The absence of a corpse ended up whetting the public’s appetite for an answer to the mystery.
  — Colin Dickey, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 July 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024