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Six example sentences with justify, each labelled with its topic.
The manager could not justify a second warehouse when the first one sat half empty all winter.
Business
Rising wages alone do not justify the tariff, since import prices fell in the same quarter.
Economics
Kant asks whether a lie told to protect a friend can ever justify itself under a universal rule.
Philosophy
Three trials with forty mice each cannot justify a claim about human patients, the reviewer wrote in her report.
Science
The officer had to justify the search in court, explaining what she saw that made a warrant unnecessary.
Law
The coach justified benching his star by pointing to the eleven turnovers she had committed in the first half.
Basketball
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