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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Throughout the town hall, Harris often brought her answers back to warnings against the former president and his fitness for office.
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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
However, the Tigers answered back in the seventh inning to secure the win and clinch the franchise’s first playoff berth since 2014.
—David Close, CNN, 27 Sep. 2024
With no plan to break the country's political stalemate, the only course left for all sides is brinkmanship, with escalating Sunni demands for freedom and Baghdad answering back with intimidation.
—Ned Parker, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2012
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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
However, the Tigers answered back in the seventh inning to secure the win and clinch the franchise’s first playoff berth since 2014.
—David Close, CNN, 27 Sep. 2024
With no plan to break the country's political stalemate, the only course left for all sides is brinkmanship, with escalating Sunni demands for freedom and Baghdad answering back with intimidation.
—Ned Parker, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2012
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“Answer back.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/answer%20back. Accessed 14 Nov. 2024.
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