justify

"It's not pleasant to try and fight for your job and justify why you're the way that you are and why you're having that time off," she says.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

The likelihood of mirror life emerging is considered low, but its possible consequences could be severe enough to justify developing detection methods in advance.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026

Strong earnings in past quarters have been able to temper many of the concerns, but analysts pointed out that investors are demanding better and better results to justify their backing.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

I often justify impulse purchases by telling myself that my money is supposed to bring me some happiness.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026

How can she justify leaving her children if she returns empty-handed?

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario

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

It justifies the name change by saying that the deepest part of the lake is on the American side, meaning that the United States "claims most of the Lake's volume."

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 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

That broad influence justifies the “Mother of the Blues” appellation, even if it was a marketing term to begin with.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

Dissent is a necessary ingredient of change, but in a system of government that provides for peaceful change, there is no cause that justifies resort to violence.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

AI optimists say that there is no bubble because leading companies’ valuations are justified, and that the technology will eventually generate massive profits.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

The state's attorney general found the policeman was justified in using force, and the officer's lawyer argued in a statement to the BBC that the driver was attempting to kill law enforcement.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

But after Meta’s recent launch of its frontier-level Wonder models and the viral success of Muse, Wall Street seems to believe that the cash burn is more than justified.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

It calls the search “neither justified nor lawful” and asks that copies of any video or audio recordings made in the home be shared.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

I justified this by telling myself that, if I wrote a really good hymn, Granny might forgive me.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

After being deported back home last year, Melekhin was charged with "justifying terrorism" and sentenced to six years in prison.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

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

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