unwarranted
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He added that the decision to wait for it to conclude "tacks on five or six years or more", describing it as "an unwarranted delay".
From BBC • May 19, 2026
But the jump from “It hasn’t happened yet” to “It will never happen” is unwarranted.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026
But Google hit back, saying that the "unwarranted intervention" risks "unnecessarily driving up costs while undermining critical privacy and security protections for European users."
From Barron's • Apr. 27, 2026
Many scholars question the fairness of vicarious liability in criminal cases, viewing it as an unwarranted exception to the general rule that criminal responsibility must be personal.
From Slate • Mar. 5, 2026
Nor was it unwarranted: in five minutes more the grating key, the yielding lock, warned me my watch was relieved.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Vocabulary lists containing unwarranted
The Devil's Arithmetic
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Dwight D. Eisenhower, "The Military-Industrial Complex" (1961)
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