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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Ahead of his film’s premiere, Kilmer and I traded questions and answers back and forth for a few days. Rachel Handler, Vulture, 2 Apr. 2025 One night, speaking to the vastness of the sky as if to communicate with her sibling, Elsa hears an answer back through the wind. Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 11 Mar. 2025 But Makenzie answered back with a soft floater off glass, and Pelster hit a massive top-of-the-key 3 to push Mullen’s lead to 16 entering the fourth. Luca Evans, The Denver Post, 15 Mar. 2025 Over the last two years, the Central Intelligence Agency has developed a tool that allows analysts to talk to virtual versions of foreign presidents and prime ministers, who answer back. Julian E. Barnes, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for answer back

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“Answer back.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/answer%20back. Accessed 13 Apr. 2025.

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