justifying

Example Sentences

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The contract was awarded without soliciting competing bids because it involved updates to Databricks software already in use, according to a memo justifying the process.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026

Patient investors get the benefit of seeing more quarterly results and gauging SpaceX’s progress toward justifying its valuation.

From Barron's • May 22, 2026

"There was simply no evidence capable of justifying this prosecution," the solicitor said.

From BBC • May 14, 2026

The decisions reached in arbitration are often secret, and arbitrators are not usually required to write the sorts of publicly available opinions justifying the reasons for their decisions in the way that courts must.

From Slate • Apr. 27, 2026

He was deciding what to do, but I knew something he did not: that the decision had already been made, and what he was doing now was just the long work of justifying it.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover