supportable
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Would it be constitutionally supportable, and would it be in the best interests of the country?
From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026
Even if the VAR thinks a red card is the better decision, it is difficult to get involved if an official has had a decent view and provided a supportable explanation.
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026
That claim is more supportable than the thesis Mr. Scheiber draws from it, namely the college-educated working class is becoming a dynamic force for progressive social change.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026
The court will have to search for a solution that is legally supportable, broadly acceptable to the public and minimally injurious to the court’s diminished public standing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2024
Yet those commands, however arbitrary and unfeeling, were more supportable than those with which, after every other source of tyrannic authority had been drained, the day was ordinarily concluded.
From The Wanderer (Volume 3 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Fanny Burney
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