justified
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The next earnings season is still several weeks away, but investors may not have to wait that long for clues about whether Friday’s selling was justified.
From Barron's • Jun. 6, 2026
Maybe a higher P/E than the historic average is justified by technology or artificial intelligence.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 5, 2026
“All the versions ask, ‘What would you do to protect your family?’ but this also asks, ‘If an injustice was done to somebody, then what are they justified doing in return,’” he says.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026
Still, the reference to 1930s-era Chicago law enforcement was apt, because it was an era of police lawlessness, where unconstitutional practices like the third-degree were justified as necessary to stopping organized crime.
From Salon • Jun. 5, 2026
Germany’s propaganda minister would claim that German actions were justified by military necessity and by self-defense.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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