justification
Example Sentences
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“Literally thousands of nominations with absolutely no justification for why it needed to be there.”
From Salon • Apr. 4, 2026
The only justification, they calculated, would be an imminent threat, especially information that Iran was close to creating a nuclear weapon.
From BBC • Mar. 28, 2026
Any justification now will just be an attempt to cover up the reality that these arrests were being done without any known agency guidance in the first place.
From Slate • Mar. 27, 2026
It was dubbed, with much justification, the “Single Greatest Predictor of Future Stock Returns.”
From MarketWatch • Mar. 25, 2026
Aureliano, for his part, found in her the justification that he needed to live.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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