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as in to react
to act or behave in response (as to a stimulus or influence)
doctors studying how the brain responds to pain
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as in to reply
to speak or write in reaction to a question or to another reaction
the students energetically participated in the discussion, responding to the teacher's questions and comments with alacrity and enthusiasm
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Recent Examples of respond
Meta didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 19 Nov. 2024
Attorneys representing the plaintiffs in both lawsuits did not respond to interview requests.
—Calmatters, The Mercury News, 19 Nov. 2024
Representatives for Stallone did not immediately respond to Variety‘s request for comment.
—Ellise Shafer, Variety, 19 Nov. 2024
Some recipients responded to the texts with anger and others with a sense of humor, but many agree that the messages seem to be a bleak foreshadowing.
—Char Adams, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2024
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Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 19 Nov. 2024
Attorneys representing the plaintiffs in both lawsuits did not respond to interview requests.
—Calmatters, The Mercury News, 19 Nov. 2024
Representatives for Stallone did not immediately respond to Variety‘s request for comment.
—Ellise Shafer, Variety, 19 Nov. 2024
Some recipients responded to the texts with anger and others with a sense of humor, but many agree that the messages seem to be a bleak foreshadowing.
—Char Adams, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2024
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Once, Maxim said, his father had reacted to a comment that the writer Alexander Fadeyev had made in a notebook shortly after the première.Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2024
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At the time, some were also feeling heightened distrust of law enforcement, which had in some places reacted to Black Lives Matter protests with violence.Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 21 Nov. 2024
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Tesla typically does not respond to requests for comment, and did not reply to inquiries for this story.Camila Domonoske, NPR, 22 Nov. 2024
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More than 130 people have replied and not a single person has experienced anything like it.Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 21 Nov. 2024
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The town’s old post office provides desks for writing letters to Santa; each note is thoughtfully answered by the postmaster and mailed back before the big day.Abigail Wilt, Southern Living, 23 Nov. 2024
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In the meantime, more studies are needed to answer the scientific question of how ultraprocessed foods impact the body, Hall said.Sandee LaMotte, CNN, 22 Nov. 2024
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“Respond.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/respond. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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