right answer

collocation in English

meaningsofrightandanswer

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right
adjective
uk
/raɪt/us
/raɪt/
correct:
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answer
noun[C]
uk
/ˈɑːn.sər/us
/ˈæn.sɚ/
a reaction to a question, letter, phone ...
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(Definition ofrightandanswerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofright answer

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Another possibility is to include any hypothetical case that has a determinaterightanswer, even if there is disagreement on its resolution.
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Traditional theory sought to be a logic of discovery and to lead us a priori to therightanswerto any ethical question.
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Language-impaired children still more often failed to give therightanswer.
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When there appears to be a correct response, the participant can do little to improve self-presentation other than try to get therightanswer.
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Subsequent research strongly implied that this was therightanswer.
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A narrow focus on therightanswerto comprehension questions (product) does little to help students understand and control the processes leading to comprehension.
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Surely, plugging the data into a computer program will yield therightanswer?
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In addition, he conjectured that therightanswerwould be 2, which is not better than the class of all graphs.
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There is clearly arightanswer, and the participant is asked to find it.
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By the strict system, responses were counted as correct only if the child provided therightanswerin the free-choice situation.
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In some cases, chronological order gives therightanswer, and in others the elapsed time does.
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It would not be unreasonable to reverse this item, counting the technicallyrightanswer(false) as wrong and the technically wrong answer (true) as right.
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It did not make any sense then, and it doesn't now; but it does yield therightanswer.
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There may be arightanswerhere, but we simply do not have enough data to pin it down.
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The aim is to stimulate thought and encourage reaction; crucially, there is no singlerightanswer, though some approaches may work better than others.
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