easy answer
collocation in Englishmeaningsofeasyandanswer
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easy
adjective
uk/ˈiː.zi/us/ˈiː.zi/
needing ...
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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 ofeasyandanswerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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This question, however, has noeasyanswerby the late 50s and early 60s.
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The truth is that the use of both languages has expanded considerably, but as for standards falling or rising, there is noeasyanswer.
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There is noeasyanswerto such questions.
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The choice is difficult and there is noeasyanswerto the dilemma.
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Theeasyanswerwould be that science had become less accessible.
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Oneeasyansweris that they make their names that way.
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There is noeasyanswerto that question, yet our response to it obviously has ethical consequences that are potentially far-reaching.
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There is noeasyanswerto such a question.
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Yet there is noeasyanswer.
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There is noeasyanswer.
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Violence is theeasyanswer.
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Extremist parties exploit people's fears of the other and of foreigners, so that they can propose aneasyanswerto globalisation.
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I accept that there is noeasyanswer.
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Theeasyanswerfrom many is more money and higher pay.
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There is noeasyanswerthat does not involve drawing finances from elsewhere.
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I have noeasyanswerto the problem, not even the easy one of saying that we should get out quickly.
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But, secondly, social justice is indivisible and must include those on fixed or slowly rising incomes who have noeasyanswerto rising prices.
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There is noeasyanswerto these difficulties in the changing circumstances of a confused and troubled post-war world.
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Crime, especially violent crime, is a very complicated phenomenon indeed and there can he noeasyanswerto it.
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If that had been the record of public ownership, perhaps we would take a different attitude to it, but there is noeasyanswerthere.
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