justified
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The next earnings season is still several weeks away, but investors may not have to wait that long for clues about whether Friday’s selling was justified.
From Barron's • Jun. 6, 2026
“All the versions ask, ‘What would you do to protect your family?’ but this also asks, ‘If an injustice was done to somebody, then what are they justified doing in return,’” he says.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026
Still, the reference to 1930s-era Chicago law enforcement was apt, because it was an era of police lawlessness, where unconstitutional practices like the third-degree were justified as necessary to stopping organized crime.
From Salon • Jun. 5, 2026
"What is never justified and what is never the solution is violence and disorder."
From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026
Later.—Our opinion was justified, for when after a refreshing sleep of some hours she woke up, she seemed brighter and better than she had been for days.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
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