Answer and Find out

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Answer verb - To speak or write in reaction to a question or to another reaction.

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Find out and answer are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Find out" instead a verb "Answer".

Find out verb - To come to an awareness of.

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Answer and find out are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Answer" instead a verb "Find out".

Also, it's not unknown for people to give a "wrong" answer, expecting the klaxon, only to find out their answer is the correct one.

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Quite a few people have been grateful when they find out they wouldn't have gotten the answer at all.

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The War of the Spider Queen series is mostly about a bunch of drow on a quest to find out why their boss doesn't answer calls.

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