I thought it was an evenhanded assessment of her performance.
an evenhanded meting out of punishment
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Court watchers and First Amendment scholars have praised Davis’ stewardship of both cases: He has been seen as an evenhanded arbiter with little patience for grandstanding or shenanigans from either side.—Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 18 Aug. 2025 But the incident shows that, far from presenting some evenhanded view of reality, A.I. output simply reflects the concerns and priorities of its designers.—Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 16 July 2025 Stourton is evenhanded, despite having served as a chairman of Sotheby’s.—Terry W. Hartle, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Mar. 2025 But he’s never had a bigger accomplice in deceit than Donald Trump.
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By participating in the moral and factual inversions that Putin has deployed for his invasion of Ukraine, the Trump administration isn’t setting itself up as some sort of evenhanded broker to end the war.—Bret Stephens, The Mercury News, 27 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for evenhanded
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