defensible
Example Sentences
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Each decision was individually defensible as domestic policy.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026
For Nebius, Liani believes the company’s distributed virtualization layer, which connects GPUs across multiple locations to create a unified cluster, is a “structural long-term differentiator and one of the company’s most defensible advantages.”
From MarketWatch • Mar. 24, 2026
Those responses are entirely defensible in moral terms.
From Salon • Mar. 18, 2026
He said the script was "very defensible" and the phone contract comparison was "fair", since the script was designed to meet teenagers "at their level of understanding".
From BBC • Mar. 2, 2026
“We need to go and speak to the sheriff, convince him to barricade the town before it’s overrun. Consolidate everyone into a few defensible buildings. We’re too vulnerable, waiting for the next attack.”
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.