justified
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Perfect isn’t good enough, and any sign of weakness is a disaster: Justified or not, that’s the current mood in the markets about the AI boom.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 2025
Lizzie, who bought The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg, says it is "very moving" for her book to have an inscription.
From BBC • Jul. 21, 2025
I think of Joris-Karl Huysmans’ “Against Nature,” Russell Greenan’s “It Happened in Boston?” and James Hogg’s “The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner,” not to mention the work of Kafka himself.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2023
Justified on the grounds that disclosure rules suffice to ferret out corruption.
From Slate • Apr. 14, 2023
His bright green eyes had, as Ambrose observed, the wisdom of Egypt; on his tomb should be inscribed "The Justified in Sekht."
From The Secret Glory by Machen, Arthur