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“Ask what’s driving the move and whether the fundamentals justify it. If you can’t explain why something is going up, or what could make it stop, you probably shouldn’t be rushing in.”

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026

As technology improves – with lighter hardware, lower power use, and cheaper installation – screens have become easier for airlines to justify.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

Once adoption increased enough, those slight increases per average order added up and became enough to justify the costs of building and maintaining the AI tools, she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

Before listening to the arguments in detail, the Court of Appeal judges must decide whether the grounds justify granting Patterson leave to challenge her conviction at all.

From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026

“They’ve made it much easier for me to get used to Nsukka,” he added, as if to justify his liking them.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“This is reflected in the ever-shorter and ever-shallower dips in key indexes, and by the relatively violent reactions when good news justifies an upward revaluation,” he adds.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026

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

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026

"This research justifies a strong precautionary approach against introductions of extraterrestrial origin."

From Science Daily ● Jul. 6, 2026

Ergo, I can’t see how the SS badge justifies the performance premium.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026

Among other things the law justifies is the experimenter’s belief that the average of a bunch of measurements of some quantity should approach the true value of the quantity as the number of measurements increases.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

After reviewing the evidence, an internal review board was divided on whether Garcia-Alamilla was justified in using deadly force.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

At the same time, a justified pushback has grown against the one-size-fits-all and sometimes paternalistic advice public health hands out, especially to pregnant women.

From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2026

The university agreed to pay $50 million over 10 years to Rhode Island workforce-development organizations, but this was far less than other schools’ penalties and was justified, among other things, by the agreement’s breadth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

After reading our first article, she and her donor-conceived son Jonah, 13, decided to do DNA tests and the results indicated her fears were justified.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

In other words, the social procedures we have for establishing certain types of fact cannot be justified, but they are successful, they pay, and this is why we employ them.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Understanding why he matters means understanding that the modern federal government is shaped not only by elected officials but also by attorneys who craft legal arguments justifying government action.

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026

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

From Salon ● Jul. 3, 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

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