Answer
Answer verb - To speak or write in reaction to a question or to another reaction.
Tend
Tend verb - To show a liking or proneness (for something).
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Luckily, Dwarf Fortress players tend to consider magma to be the answer to everything, including cleaning up their junk.
Source: Cavalry of the Dead -
No Ending: Many of the shows riffed were Cut Short, with the result that they tend to have very lackluster finales that answer little.
Source: Web Video / The Annotated Series - In the countryside, all men are brave gauchos, generally noble, proud and stoic, who can even sew silk on horseback and tend to answer to the smallest provocation with a knife.
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