defensible

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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

A documented roof upgrade or defensible space should directly affect underwriting and pricing because verified mitigation lowers both risk and cost.

From Barron's • Jan. 27, 2026

One worry about how defensible Netflix’s fortress is comes from how fast it got here.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 20, 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