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Less defensibly, disenchantment over trade with China has fed wider disenchantment with global commerce itself; consequently, neither party actively supports new trade promotion agreements anymore.

From Washington Post • Mar. 22, 2023

Geske said she believed that the jurors could have defensibly reached a guilty verdict.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 19, 2021

There was a time when courts might defensibly have shrugged off a constitutional challenge to school discipline as being too insignificant for the proverbial “federal case.”

From Slate • Mar. 29, 2021

"Paltering is only important in a world where communicators feel they have to be able to say something that's defensibly true," Rogers said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 6, 2017

As if one might just as easily, and defensibly, have picked a novel by Jeffrey Archer as the winner.

From The Guardian • Aug. 26, 2011