justified
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Having Bryan be defined by his entirely justified terror keeps the audience engaged; the possible ways he might fail seem infinite.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
The German philosopher Hegel considered Sophocles’ “Antigone” the high-water mark of tragedy for the way it dramatizes the collision between two equally justified moral positions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Denton and her colleagues decided to test whether that assumption was justified.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
Ultimately, it’s a lost cause, because his fears are justified.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026
In that case, then, the way I’d talked about her slap on the elbow thing could be seen as a betrayal, and she might well then have felt justified retaliating as she had.
From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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