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The county regulators interpret pesticide safety laws differently, are not required to justify fines and are not mandated to check a company’s statewide compliance history, the audit found.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

Tuchel previously said Palmer had a "point to prove" and needed "to step up" to "keep his shirt and justify the nomination".

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

The team hopes those microbial signatures could eventually form the basis of a simple diagnostic tool that helps pest professionals determine whether termite evidence is recent enough to justify treatment.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026

Tech execs are spending big on the technology and getting enough value to justify continued investment, but they still struggle to measure exactly where the returns are coming from and where they are not.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

“You realize, the relations between my people and the Northlanders are perfectly cordial. It would be difficult for me to justify disturbing them.”

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman

Anthropic will have to get to its own market projection without owning a declining microblogging platform, and until its documents are public, we won’t know how the company justifies it.

From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2026

MarketWatch Picks: ‘My assets have grown nicely, though I don’t know that it justifies the annual cost of 0.5%.’

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026

"Nothing justifies these substantial harms to competition," the lawsuit states.

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026

The final act, during which the friends gather to mourn the death of one of their group, concludes on a deeply affecting note that justifies the expansive length.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

She talks about all those pretty scientific words, all those Big Terms, and justifies all those footnotes in her book.

From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller

"And then you somehow find yourself in a situation where you can set up a museum and a hoarder is justified as a professional curator."

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

A move justified on those grounds invites the obvious follow-up: how much higher?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 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

Hence “black is beautiful” and “gay pride”—slogans and anthems of political movements aimed at ending not only legal discrimination, but the stigma that justified it.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

In justifying that more upbeat outlook, Chipotle’s executives said they still liked their sales momentum overall.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026

The practice is so unusual that an internal waiver justifying the choice is typically required.

From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026

The Times quotes officials justifying the order by saying it would reduce duplication of effort; our own spies wouldn’t bother recruiting someone if they knew he or she was already an agent.

From Slate ● Jul. 1, 2026

Another view highlighted the impact of a weak yen as import price increases burden smaller businesses, justifying rate increases.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026

The former was divided between admiration of the brilliancy which exercise had given to her complexion, and doubt as to the occasion’s justifying her coming so far alone.

From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen