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fair

[fair] / fɛər /








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But it is also fair to wonder how much he was let down by the recruitment side.

From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026

Or you may decide that you were simply dealing with life’s terms and agree that a 50/50 split is fair.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 12, 2026

“Runa Simi” is allowed to screen commercially in the U.S. thanks to the fair use doctrine, which grants the filmmakers permission to use images from “The Lion King,” a copyrighted work.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2026

To be fair, this survey didn’t claim to be a representative sample of all U.S. doctors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026

Junior sounded as if he’d just won the blue ribbon at the county fair.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney

But he also said the tax system should be fairer, taking aim at the strategy known as “buy, borrow, die.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

Defra says that an average of £2.3bn a year is being invested through its farming schemes in England and insists it is protecting farmers in trade deals and also making supply chains fairer.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

"We need greener, fairer supply chains that take into account workers' issues and wages."

From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026

Instead, the proposed framework emphasizes research led locally, greater investment in regional collections and scientific infrastructure, stronger taxonomic expertise, long-term monitoring, fairer international partnerships, and closer connections between scientists and decision-makers.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026

“You may put your wildlings in these ruined forts, Lord Snow, but how will you make them stay? What is there to stop them moving south to fairer, warmer lands?”

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

The fairest way to handle income disparity, Hoffman said, is to first reach an agreement on what you can realistically afford together.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026

The fairest answer is that he was partly right, for reasons he did not fully understand, and he exaggerated the promise.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026

Welcome to Goodwood Festival of Speed, an annual four-day motorsports-apalooza where the fastest, fairest and most excessively expensive cars in the world compete for driveway bragging rights.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026

LA28 chief Allison Katz-Mayfield called the random ticket-drawing process "the fairest way to ensure that the broadest number of people can get access to tickets and that no one is advantaged or disadvantaged".

From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2026

Elizabeth instantly read her feelings, and at that moment solicitude for Wickham, resentment against his enemies, and everything else, gave way before the hope of Jane’s being in the fairest way for happiness.

From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen


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