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justify

[juhs-tuh-fahy] / ˈdʒʌs təˌfaɪ /


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But after this latest setback, Grealish is running out of time and opportunities to justify that continued support.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

Ives said he expected 2027 to be the year when revenue from AI begins to justify the heavy spending.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

Lee called the results a “bad combination,” adding that “the continued cash burn gets harder to justify without monetization or the core business growing to compensate for it.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026

“It just became harder to justify staying for all the responsible adult reasons,” he told me, when it was compromising his day-to-day happiness.

From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026

“I say these things to justify being fed by the church,” Father Amadi said.

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

“Oil prices remain supported by geopolitical risk, but they are retreating from elevated levels because traders are reassessing whether the actual physical impact justifies the earlier panic premium.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 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

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

I know what my mother is—she is someone for whom the end of a thing justifies the means of getting there, the same as my father, and the same, sometimes, as me.

From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth

Tusk justified the action in a comment on the X platform.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

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 child's family disputes that the shooting was justified.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

“A majority of the public supports it. They see it as morally justified, but they do think there is some risk that it could go astray,” said J. Baxter Oliphant, a senior researcher at Pew.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

By appropriating the language of genes and inheritance, entire systems of power and statehood were justified and reinforced.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

This means there could be "no grounds justifying the decision not to indict Mr Abdalmasih Hanoun".

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

“I was always justifying to myself to spend more money,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 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

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


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