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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“At this stage, we don’t see a clear benefit to AOI or our shareholders that justifies these uncertainties.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
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
MarketWatch Picks: ‘My assets have grown nicely, though I don’t know that it justifies the annual cost of 0.5%.’
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
Among other things the law justifies is the experimenter’s belief that the average of a bunch of measurements of some quantity should approach the true value of the quantity as the number of measurements increases.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
