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View synonyms for right about

right about

noun

  1. a turn executed through 180°
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


adjective

  1. in the opposite direction
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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If Trump is right about anything, he is taking America back – back to a time when women didn’t vote, Black people were slaves and child labor was the norm.

From Salon

He's right about this, but his words will fall on deaf ears.

From Salon

But however menacing, these were still just protests, and if Taylor was right about an approaching era of violence — something more widespread and systemic than the lone-wolf terrorism of a wayward man like Crusius — it was still unclear what the actual danger looked like.

From Salon

A 2002 Gallup Poll found that 60% of the public said they trusted the government to “do what is right” about always or most of the time.

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon kept mum about the race except to vaguely claim that Trump was “kind of right” about certain issues; the stock is doing great.

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