justify
verb (used with object)
to show (an act, claim, statement, etc.) to be just or right.
justifies
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present tense formof justify (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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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
That justifies a premium of a few percentage points.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
We could rearrange the portfolios differently to tamp down the risk, selecting companies that are not projected to grow so quickly, but the current market environment justifies the risk — and will reward it.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
Dissent is a necessary ingredient of change, but in a system of government that provides for peaceful change, there is no cause that justifies resort to violence.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
