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fair

[fair] / fɛər /








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Let’s make the effort to ensure that these elections are fair, and that they deliver a clear verdict.

From Salon Sep. 18, 2026

Deputy Public Defender Donna Tryfman said that although the allegations against Harrison are gruesome, her client still has a right to a fair trial.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 18, 2026

Opponents and officials deserve our respect and fair play.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 17, 2026

But both Petri and Simon Wickham, chief executive of Rowing New Zealand, said their concerns had nothing to do with regional or urban preference but with competitors getting fair racing.

From BBC Sep. 17, 2026

It wasn’t fair that my formerly-fun-but-now-boring cousin would turn beach time into boring time.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

Instead, the proposed framework emphasizes research led locally, greater investment in regional collections and scientific infrastructure, stronger taxonomic expertise, long-term monitoring, fairer international partnerships, and closer connections between scientists and decision-makers.

From Science Daily Sep. 9, 2026

She didn’t want laws and social constructs to be fairer, less dangerous, more fulfilling for women as a concept; she wanted it for you, for me, for the lady in the back row.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 4, 2026

"Sometimes that's deemed unfair in the practice so a total ban of prescribing testosterone can happen so that the workload is fairer," she added.

From BBC Sep. 1, 2026

Calendar integration is one way that productivity trackers have gotten more advanced and, ostensibly, fairer.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 2026

She might be fairer than Snape, but she was still extremely strict.

From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling

The fairest answer is that he was partly right, for reasons he did not fully understand, and he exaggerated the promise.

From Science Daily Aug. 7, 2026

Welcome to Goodwood Festival of Speed, an annual four-day motorsports-apalooza where the fastest, fairest and most excessively expensive cars in the world compete for driveway bragging rights.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 18, 2026

After the victory, Newsom touted California’s approach as the fairest possible: giving the choice to voters.

From Los Angeles Times May 8, 2026

"It was a hard-fought game, the details led to Betis winning, I think a draw would have been fairest," Villarreal midfielder Dani Parejo told Movistar.

From Barron's Jan. 17, 2026

“Knights defend the weak and protect the innocent, they say. And I am the fairest maid in all Volantis.”

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin




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