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What does reply mean?
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reply Verb

— If you reply to someone or something, you answer using words. "Are you OK?" she ask. "Yes," I replied. I said hi and she did not reply. She'll reply to questions in writing. — If you reply to someone or something, you react. The Cubs replied with three points of their own to win the game.

reply Noun

— A reply is the words you use to answer someone. "Why?" He received no reply. "Did you hear me?" "Is it OK if I go?" Without waiting for a reply, he ran back toward the dining area.

reply

— verb (= answer) react verbally She didn't want to answer answer the question We answered that we would accept the invitation — noun (= answer) a statement (either spoken or written) that is made to reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation I waited several days for his answer he wrote replies to several of his critics — noun the speech act of continuing a conversational exchange he growled his reply

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answer respond response retort return rejoinder reaction react replica repay rejoin cue counter solve solution report reply to rebuttal give an answer crackdown answer back revenge replication reciprocate plead key give back echo counterattack written response translate tell talkback take in charge take back speak to speak in reply serve send back see sass roar in imitation riposte reverberation reverberate return something retaliate result restore resounding

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Simple sentences

I don't know how to reply to that question.
Finally, I have time to reply to the mail that I have received these past three weeks.
I'm sorry I didn't reply to you sooner.
I haven't had a reply to my letter.
I would appreciate a reply as soon as possible.
Please send me a reply as soon as you receive this mail.
I'm extremely embarrassed that it has taken so long to reply.
Thanks for your reply.
We look forward to your early reply.
The reply came after three days.
How did you reply?
What did you reply?
Sorry I didn't reply sooner.
I'm looking forward to your reply.
I'm sorry for the delay in my reply.
Please reply to me as soon as possible.

Movie subtitles

They could send us a signal, in four years' time it would get here, and then we could reply eight years later to them.
Not a single reply in more than one hour.
Did John D, Lee report to you at any time after this massacre what had been done at the massacre and if so, what did you reply to him in reference thereto?
He makes a public reply.
The reply.
I'll take the reply myself.
Keep it! So you wanted to deliver my reply. So her friend will be out?
Mr. Vanderhof, we've written many letters about this, but we've received no reply.
The prosecution waives the right of reply.
And, if you were not so lacking in perception, you might have spared yourself my refusal! Is-is this the only reply I'm to be honored with?
Reply without becoming disconcerted but tell us the absolute truth.
Others before you didn't reply as well.
His reply informed me that Count Alucard is not known at the Hungarian embassy.
Reply not to me with a foolish jest, presume not that I am the thing I was.
He didn't even reply.
A nice reply.
The ship's guns roared in reply to the massacre.
You'll hold yourself in readiness for a return flight to Russia as soon as our reply is ready.
Come, August, we shall reply to the king at once.
I wrote many times, giving you details asking your aid and trust, and in reply, I got nothing.
For Jules I would question every saint in heaven, and how could they reply?
What did you reply?
What matters is your reply.
I'll reply.
Why, 'tis a loving and a fair reply.
Jury, disregard reply.
They did not even reply to her letter.
There's still no reply regarding the gift I sent out, right?
Reply at least when I text you.
Monsieur La Tour La Tour. I choose to think that idiotic reply was not a weak attempt at humor. But a definite lack of intelligence.
She asked if she might sit down and did so before I could reply.
I'll take the reply myself. You wait here.
So you wanted to deliver my reply.
Friends, I beg your indulgence for just a few final remarks in reply to my old friend and rival for Congress, Hank Allen, who reminds me of a dog I had when I was a boy.
I reply to all favors from England and elsewhere abroad, but he knows slot about tobacco!
I did write and ask her to tea. Got a reply from the commander, Saying she wasn't strong enough to accept invitations.
In reply, I beg to state, you were engaged for teaching school.
Would you mind carrying back a reply?
We are waiting, Monsieur, for your devastating reply.
My reply to your annoying letter.

News and current affairs

I reply emphatically that it is not.
But skeptics reply that China is merely waiting for its economy to lay the basis for future hegemony.
Republicans reply that America is bound to be resented because of its size and its association with globalization.
Defenders of the current system reply: we leave such choices to individuals to make for themselves.
Many simply don't reply at all.
To contact friends or colleagues overseas, you had to write them a letter and wait at least two weeks for a reply.
No funding for that, came the reply.
Russian officials reply that there can be no serious objection to such civil nuclear cooperation programs so long as the recipient country accepts the safeguards and inspection regime of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
The optimist may reply that the pessimist's imagination is too weak to envisage the full range of wonderful new job possibilities that automation is opening up.
But this reply fails to deal with the suffering of those who drown in floods, are burned alive in forest fires caused by lightning, or die of hunger or thirst during a drought.
The standard reply is that green technologies seem more expensive only because the price of fossil fuels does not reflect their climate costs.
Others reply that new discoveries and improved technologies for extracting oil from existing fields make such projections too alarmist.
Skeptics immediately reply that women have not made war simply because they have rarely been in power.
When one asks finance ministers in commodity-exporting debtor countries, they frequently reply that they fear insufficient demand for commodity bonds.
All I have to do is click reply, find Juan's e-mail address, add a brief comment and hit send.
Or I reply to Alice asking her to send me a paragraph or two - and lose my enthusiasm for the project.
His reply: Europe was above all the continent of peace, compassion, and cooperation.
Chua would reply that reaching a high level of achievement brings great satisfaction, and that the only way to do it is through hard work.
His reply was always conditional.

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