defensible

Example Sentences

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For a pitcher under contract to the Dodgers through 2035, it is certainly defensible in the short and the long term.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

While the forward curve is telling them to run, “the rational response—the only financially defensible response—is to cut runs.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Those responses are entirely defensible in moral terms.

From Salon • Mar. 18, 2026

He said the script was "very defensible" and the phone contract comparison was "fair", since the script was designed to meet teenagers "at their level of understanding".

From BBC • Mar. 2, 2026

Practices such as slavery that once had been considered acceptable were no longer morally defensible.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French