come up with an answer vs give an answer

Both 'come up with an answer' and 'give an answer' are correct and commonly used phrases in English. They are slightly different in meaning and usage. 'Come up with an answer' implies the process of thinking and producing a response, while 'give an answer' simply means providing a response.

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come up with an answer

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is used when someone is expected to think and provide a response to a question or problem.

Examples:

I need some time to come up with an answer.
She always comes up with creative answers to difficult questions.

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I have to admit that I was unable to come up with an answer to that.
Trying to come up with an answer for the dean's parlor game?
It's a question I often ask myself... but I've yet to come up with an answer.
Poland has not yet come up with an answer to this question; it has still to sit that examination of its strengths.
You come up with an answer to that one, you let me know.
You better come up with an answer before they unfreeze.
I have to answer my citizens about what service this is giving them, and I still, after the lengthy debates on these reports, struggle to come up with an answer.
When you come up with an answer, call me.
None of them was able to come up with an answer.
That's why... I want to hear your stories, then come up with an answer.
I think if you listen to the phrasing of that question, you'll come up with an answer.
Don't tell me the great Clark Devlin can't come up with an answer.
Why don't you come up with an answer?
I keep thinking and thinking and trying to come up with an answer, but there isn't one.
I keep thinking and thinking and trying to come up with an answer, but there isn't one.
But you haven't come up with an answer yet, have you?
We asked the Committee on Legal Affairs and Citizens' Rights to answer one question in particular, because we ourselves were unable to come up with an answer, and I should like to ask the Commissioner to listen to it.
Perhaps the working party will eventually come up with an answer to that question.

Alternatives:

find an answer
provide an answer
offer an answer
suggest an answer
propose an answer

give an answer

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is used when someone is expected to provide a response to a question or situation.

Examples:

Can you give me an answer by tomorrow?
He gave a vague answer to the question.

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Instead we should listen to the world and give an answer .
There is no shortcut to give an answer to this question.
The students could not give an answer.
So I am unable to give an answer.
I am physically and intellectually engaged in the attempt to give an answer to something unknown.
Must be provide all possible questions of a user and give an answer.
You don't have to give an answer now.
All religions try to give an answer to death.
For them it becomes difficult to give an answer.
I tried to give an answer, but everything I said sounded inadequate.
Now man comes himself to find out to give an answer to this question.
and give an answer to a friend
It is difficult to give an answer but I think that it was the "Birth of Venus" by Botticelli.
The first question is that to which is easier to give an answer, even if, still now, in a fairly superficial manner.
Eigen tries to give an answer of a deterministic type: in the prebiotic world must have existed amino acids, ribose and deoxiribose, nucleobases.
A thematic group exhibition at Frankfurter Kunstverein is trying to give an answer by juxtapositioning a range of analog and digital artworks...
Later I would like to give an answer to Mrs Lindeperg, among others, on the question of asylum.
We have to give an answer to this question!
He might also perhaps telephone the Belgian Foreign Ministry, which I think would be obliging enough to give an answer.
First I would like to give an answer to Mr Onyszkiewicz, who raised a very serious issue: that of the minority.

Alternatives:

offer an answer
provide an answer
present an answer
state an answer
share an answer

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