How to Use accountability in a Sentence

accountability

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  • With no accountability, the state can do what is best for the state.
    — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 9 Sep. 2022
  • Where is the accountability if your head coach has yet to speak with you about it?
    — Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com, 15 Sep. 2021
  • Fields, though, felt more accountability shift to him over the past week — and liked how that felt.
    — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 6 Dec. 2020
  • Well, the people deserve to know the facts, the truth and accountability.
    — CBS News, 3 Nov. 2019
  • But at the very same time, putting in the levels of accountability.
    — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 4 Sep. 2017
  • As long as the shares continue to flow, accountability is the order of the day.
    — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 6 May 2022
  • Back then, there was a little bit more accountability about the power of the pen.
    — Bianca Betancourt, Harper's BAZAAR, 12 Oct. 2021
  • What's in it for them is the transparency and the accountability.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 22 July 2022
  • That’s where the rubber meets the road in accountability.
    — Randy Rieland, Smithsonian, 6 Mar. 2018
  • Get a group of two, three, or four friends for added accountability.
    — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 1 Apr. 2019
  • What the two cases have in common, critics said, is a lack of accountability on the part of the main actors.
    — Mark Landler, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2022
  • Part of the problem is that there has been little accountability for any of these crimes.
    — Sarah Jones, The New Republic, 15 Mar. 2018
  • The virtue of accountability is transformed in short order into the vice of group blame.
    — David French, National Review, 8 Jan. 2018
  • When things go awry and lack of accountability is rampant, front offices can turn on the head coach.
    — Vince Ellis, Detroit Free Press, 20 May 2018
  • On that score, accountability will be clear: put up the stadium, and then put up or shut up.
    — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2023
  • The issue of accountability and transparency is not new to the school.
    — Allie Gross, Detroit Free Press, 29 Mar. 2018
  • For some readers, accountability is the key to emerging from a slump.
    — Stephanie Merry, Washington Post, 11 July 2022
  • And there are close levels of accountability on how funds are used and for what purpose.
    — AZCentral.com, 30 Mar. 2022
  • In all three cases, there was found to be a lack of transparency, accountability, and oversight in the use of FRT.
    — Marco Marcelline, PCMAG, 31 Oct. 2022
  • His defense is that bad and there needs to be accountability.
    — Tim Bielik, cleveland, 13 Nov. 2022
  • And what journalism does is try and bring that level of accountability at least by telling the truth.
    — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Winfield said the accountability law was not solely a response to the outrage and protest.
    — Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 1 Nov. 2022
  • No one wanted to take any kind of accountability for it.
    — Amelia Harnish, refinery29.com, 25 June 2019
  • This is cowardly and flies in the face of anyone’s idea of accountability.
    — Star Tribune, 7 Aug. 2020
  • While there will always be a bad apple in the bunch, managers must take their share of accountability.
    — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2022
  • Akira is supposed to be the conscience of the movie, the reflection of John’s shame or guilt or accountability.
    — Vulture, 29 Mar. 2023
  • That’s my job as a head coach, to make sure there is accountability on everybody.
    — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Oct. 2022
  • The database provides a road map of accountability for these sales.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 27 July 2019
  • Some relatives used the makeshift forum to voice their frustration and call for accountability.
    — John Yoon, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2024
  • After a two-year spike during the pandemic and national outrage over police accountability, Chicago began to see a decline in homicides in 2022.
    — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 3 Jan. 2025

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