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"No amount of whataboutery can justify it," Bhuyan added, according to the report.

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026

“This film is about storytelling. It’s about the stories we tell ourselves to justify any points of view or any interest we have.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Openness is more than an architectural effect: It depends on having the freedom to enter without having to justify our presence.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Presumably, other large American businesses would need to pay for AI tools to justify all of this investment.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

Even as genetics was being used to justify sweeping changes in law and society, the gene itself had remained a doggedly abstract entity, a ghost lurking in the biological machine.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

That justifies higher copper prices and reinforces the case for miners to buy copper growth, rather than building new mines, in some instances, it says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

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

We could rearrange the portfolios differently to tamp down the risk, selecting companies that are not projected to grow so quickly, but the current market environment justifies the risk — and will reward it.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026

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

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 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

He said the move was justified because yields had run ahead of the economy’s fundamentals.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

His previous spells at Sheffield United and Bournemouth also justified his addition as someone whose stock had continued to rise despite being involved in relegations.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

This thought process is somewhat justified, he said, because elevated gas prices can translate to higher inflation overall.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026

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

German newspapers defended the sinking as a justified act of war.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman

Build a user base as quickly as possible, which in turn signals to investors there is a market fit, justifying more funding.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026

The majority didn’t issue an opinion justifying its ruling.

From Salon ● Jul. 3, 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

In justifying the repeal of its former rule, the SEC argued that repeal made negotiating settlements easier and cheaper — thus, sparing the SEC’s scarce resources.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 17, 2026

These midwestern programs have been conducted in a spirit of crisis, as though the advance of the beetle presented an extreme peril justifying any means to combat it.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson