warranted
justified or well-founded: There is thus no cause for uncertainty here, and no warranted basis for any speculation.
backed or covered by a warranty or guarantee: If you don't distance the turbines from each other, the turbulence from their wakes may reduce their warranted life.
authorized: Every significant business decision made by a warranted contracting officer must be reviewed by an independent board.
the simple past tense and past participle of warrant.
Origin of warranted
1Other words from warranted
- non·war·rant·ed, adjective
- qua·si-war·rant·ed, adjective
- un·war·rant·ed, adjective
- un·war·rant·ed·ly, adverb
- well-war·rant·ed, adjective
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How to use warranted in a sentence
Shopify has already exercised a quarter of those warrants, while the rest is set to convert upon the IPO.
Border Patrol was making the courthouse arrests without warrants and not only violating the constitutional rights of those they arrested, but creating a “chilling effect” on noncitizen witnesses, the complaint argued.
Judge Bars Immigration Arrests at San Diego’s Federal Courthouse | Maya Srikrishnan | November 18, 2020 | Voice of San DiegoTwo officers with the department’s warrant apprehension task force were in an unmarked vehicle conducting surveillance for a domestic violence warrant in the Rosemont neighborhood when the incident occurred, Harrison said.
Baltimore police fatally shot person who fired at officers, commissioner says | Emily Davies | November 9, 2020 | Washington PostMichigan’s Proposition 22, which requires a search warrant for electronic and data and communications, will pass with wide margins.
Here are the main tech ballot initiatives that passed in this election | Abby Ohlheiser | November 4, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewMattingly claims that he has suffered “severe trauma and emotional distress” after being shot in the leg by Walker while executing the search warrant on March 13th.
Officer Involved In Killing Of Breonna Taylor Files Lawsuit Against Taylor’s Boyfriend | Kirsten West Savali | October 30, 2020 | Essence.com
Until these nations can provide basic health care, the fear is warranted.
Isaacs says that the epidemic is inciting panic worldwide that, in his opinion, may soon be warranted.
After advising against travel to the affected areas, Frieden said increased caution is warranted.
Two American Ebola Patients Coming Home to U.S. for Treatment | Abby Haglage | August 1, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWere they keeping a list instead of getting their work done, perhaps discipline is warranted.
Governments at all levels will face short-term costs, of course, but the economic fear of immigrants has never been warranted.
These Undocumented Teens Outsmarted MIT—and Still Cant Get Real Jobs in America | Jonathan Alter | July 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTYet no body of professing Christians are warranted in uniting in covenant with those who hold not the truth.
The Ordinance of Covenanting | John CunninghamBut no one is therefore warranted in maintaining that to apply it so, is to use it in things religious.
The Ordinance of Covenanting | John CunninghamIt was not my good fortune to be allowed to follow up my plans, which almost warranted a certainty of success.
Life of Richard Trevithick, Volume II (of 2) | Francis TrevithickWe are warranted to maintain that what was Covenanted before, no less than it should be performed, should be vowed again.
The Ordinance of Covenanting | John CunninghamNor when either of them was resorted to, seeing that any one of them was warranted, was the vow left unpaid.
The Ordinance of Covenanting | John Cunningham
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