Verb She hasn't yet responded to my letter. My mother responded to my request with a firm no. The teacher asked a question, but the student didn't respond. “Are you ready?” he asked. “No,” she responded. When I asked him what he was doing, he responded that it was none of my business. Police quickly responded to the call for help. She responded to their decision by threatening to quit. See More
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Because fMRI machines can measure changes in blood flow and electrical activity in the brain, neuroscientists often use them to study which parts of the cortex respond to different stimuli.Quanta Magazine, 8 Feb. 2022 Every year, officers and deputies across the county respond to tens of thousands of mental health calls. Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Dec. 2021 Officers are working quickly to usher folks off the fairgrounds and respond to reports of violence in the Midway area. Landon Mion, Fox News, 4 Sep. 2022 The exercises noted below are designed to address the most common causes of sciatica, but not all types of back pain respond to the same remedy, so not all exercises will work for everyone. Dana Santas, CNN, 19 Aug. 2022 Jones has repeatedly failed to appear for depositions and respond to orders to produce business records. Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 10 Aug. 2022 Lindsay Williams, a spokesman for Immigration and U.S. Customs Enforcement did not make Lopez available for an interview or respond to questions related to his testimony. Maria Perez, USA TODAY, 21 July 2022 Still, Facebook is just one platform out of many, while all the major communications platforms respond to hundreds of thousands of police requests every year. Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 16 Aug. 2022 Meta decision and respond with any potential changes or complaints.Wired, 11 Aug. 2022
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Reps for Harding did not immediately respond to PEOPLE. Amanda Taylor, Peoplemag, 17 Sep. 2022 Berkeley County West Virginians for Life did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Emmanuel Felton, Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2022 Judge Boyce's office did not immediately respond to an inquiry from Fox News Digital. Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 17 Sep. 2022 Empire Diner did not immediately respond to a request for comment sent by USA TODAY to an email listed on its website. Orlando Mayorquin, USA TODAY, 17 Sep. 2022 Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. Brent Kendall, WSJ, 17 Sep. 2022 Israeli military did not immediately respond to a request for comment.BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2022 The company didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2022 The lawyer, Aaron Morrison, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 13 Sep. 2022 See More
Word History
Etymology
Noun
Middle English respounde, literally, reply, from Anglo-French respuns, respunt response
Verb
alteration of Middle English respounden, from Anglo-French respundre, from Latin respondēre to promise in return, answer, from re- + spondēre to promise — more at spouse