justified
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Some of the fears are probably justified, and we should assume that the executives calling for government action believe what they say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
Senior coroner Richard Travers said: "I am not satisfied, on the basis of the evidence provided, that granting anonymity is justified by reference to common law principles of fairness."
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
The German philosopher Hegel considered Sophocles’ “Antigone” the high-water mark of tragedy for the way it dramatizes the collision between two equally justified moral positions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Denton and her colleagues decided to test whether that assumption was justified.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
Again, it cannot be denied that this point of view is abundantly justified by American Negro history.
From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin
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