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rightness

[rahyt-nis] / ˈraɪt nɪs /




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I did just have this feeling of rightness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

The second cost of diversity derives from how employees of color perceive the rightness of their employer’s actions, otherwise known as legitimacy.

From Salon ● Apr. 1, 2025

“The one way to preserve and defend a place’s rightness is to inhabit it, intimate, knowledgeable, and vigilant as can be.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2023

“A good producer,” he writes “can smell nuance from a hundred yards…he knows when you’re starting to question the basic rightness of your case. That’s when he begins his pep talk. ‘

From Slate ● Apr. 25, 2023

The meeting adjourned with tempers still hot and both sides feeling absolute in the rightness of their position.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling


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