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Six example sentences with justified, each labelled with its topic.
The curator's decision to pull the painting from the show was justified once the lab confirmed the canvas was a forgery.
Art
Users' anger over the update was justified: the new version deleted saved drafts and offered no way to recover them.
Technology
The critic's harsh review seemed justified after the novel's final chapter abandoned every plot thread it had spent four hundred pages building.
Literature
The early timeout looked panicky but proved justified when the team came out and scored eight straight points.
Basketball
The rate cut was justified by three months of falling prices, and the central bank said so in its statement.
Finance
Her worry about the exam was justified, since she had skipped the two chapters that made up half the paper.
Psychology
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