Answer
Answer verb - To speak or write in reaction to a question or to another reaction.
Open
Open verb - To change from a closed to an open position.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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When the carpet rolls open by accident Reznik finds that the body is missing, the answer only being revealed later on.
Source: Carpet-Rolled Corpse - Not even to answer a phone with nothing beyond "Sorry, not open for business yet." Link here at about 2:20
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While this was most probably a Sequel Hook, the discontinuation of the series meant that the actions of the Shivans at the end of the second game was an open-ended answer for twelve years.
Source: Video Game / FreeSpace
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Open or Answer. 2016. Accessed August 07, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/answer/open.
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