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Six example sentences with justification, each labelled with its topic.
The officer offered no justification for the stop beyond a hunch, and the judge excluded everything found afterward.
Law
Finance rejected the hire because the justification ran to one line about being busy, with no workload data attached.
Business
The extra columns had a structural justification: without them the cantilevered roof would sag by twelve millimeters.
Architecture
The essay asks what justification a person could offer for breaking a promise once keeping it became inconvenient.
Philosophy
The bank demanded a written justification for every expense over fifty dollars before it would extend the credit line.
Finance
The founders' justification for the price increase was a chart showing server costs tripling in a year.
Startups
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