answer to someone

Examples of answering

answering

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Answering these questions will be key to increasing adoption of biologically integrated farming systems.
Answering this involves stepping outside the discipline of the system designer and understanding the social, material and organisational aspects of medical work.
Answering this question will help provide us with an understanding of what produces both the similarities and differences in sleep mentation across sleep stages.
But the orange sticker on the correct answering machine button is not used to stand in for anything.
In contrast, an electronic answering form can abolish this artificial answering effect.
Analysis of the type of abductions made as part of the inference process provides insight into how the system is behaving when answering questions.
They provide the first experimental study of algorithms for answering queries.
The specification was used to derive algorithms for consistently answering some restricted forms of first order queries and to obtain some complexity results.
In answering this question, the customer now uses the term herself, two pads (line 32), in referring to the service.
Future question answering systems should be able to access content in multiple languages and across multiple media as well.
Question answering systems could also go beyond text-based sources, to include other media: spoken language, imagery, data from structured sources, including databases and knowledge bases.
In answering the first question a series of contradictions arise.
However, these practices are neither necessary nor sufficient for answering to occur.
In the remainder of cases, non-selected recipients generally responded and did so by answering the question in nearly all cases.
Champion's restraint in answering this question is a measure of his mastery as a historian.
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