not warranted

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Foden was unable to continue after the incident, which left England defender Harry Maguire bewildered how it had not warranted a red card.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

If no case is filed, state prosecutors must release a report detailing the evidence and the legal reasoning for why charges were not warranted.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2025

But prosecutors said in the filing that sending him to prison for the rest of his life was not warranted, despite the severity of his crime, because of his relative youth.

From New York Times • Mar. 15, 2024

“Given the absence of an identified safety defect based on available information and FCA’s customer satisfaction campaign which addresses the failure mode, further action is not warranted at this time,” the agency wrote.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 29, 2024

"As usual they enlarged upon the report and made assumptions and inferences not warranted by facts."

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 by Various