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Examples of value judgment in a Sentence
I am not making value judgments, I am simply presenting the facts.
lexicographers do not make value judgments about words when deciding whether they should be entered in the dictionary
Recent Examples on the Web
There are no value judgments to the word Propaganda.
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Sam Roberts, New York Times, 28 July 2023
Courtesy of Max In the first five episodes of season 2, Che finds themselves in the world of Hollywood and its meticulous value judgments.
—Justin Kirkland, ELLE, 13 July 2023
Change is different and the value judgment on AI is yet to be determined and will evolve quickly.
—Karen Hill, Forbes, 4 May 2023
Somehow voters were supposed to make value judgments about these nominees without debate or communication of any kind, and without mechanisms for feedback to improve the nominee selection or voting processes.
—Allyson McCabe, Vulture, 28 Apr. 2023
Baron had described criticisms of the practice of objective journalism—things like blindness to one’s own biases, making value judgments for storytelling purposes, and bothsidesism—but only defended the ideals those practices in theory were meant to uphold.
—Max Moran, The New Republic, 4 Apr. 2023
Instead of being able to choose between plans based on easy-to-measure financial outcomes and transparent decision-making, workers’ retirement savings will be subjected to the undisclosed value judgments of their plans’ fiduciaries.
—WSJ, 7 Mar. 2023
This is not a value judgment.
—Forbeswomen Voices, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2021
There’s no value judgment.
—cleveland, 29 Sep. 2021
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Sam Roberts, New York Times, 28 July 2023
Courtesy of Max In the first five episodes of season 2, Che finds themselves in the world of Hollywood and its meticulous value judgments.
—Justin Kirkland, ELLE, 13 July 2023
Change is different and the value judgment on AI is yet to be determined and will evolve quickly.
—Karen Hill, Forbes, 4 May 2023
Somehow voters were supposed to make value judgments about these nominees without debate or communication of any kind, and without mechanisms for feedback to improve the nominee selection or voting processes.
—Allyson McCabe, Vulture, 28 Apr. 2023
Baron had described criticisms of the practice of objective journalism—things like blindness to one’s own biases, making value judgments for storytelling purposes, and bothsidesism—but only defended the ideals those practices in theory were meant to uphold.
—Max Moran, The New Republic, 4 Apr. 2023
Instead of being able to choose between plans based on easy-to-measure financial outcomes and transparent decision-making, workers’ retirement savings will be subjected to the undisclosed value judgments of their plans’ fiduciaries.
—WSJ, 7 Mar. 2023
This is not a value judgment.
—Forbeswomen Voices, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2021
There’s no value judgment.
—cleveland, 29 Sep. 2021
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Word History
First Known Use
1889, in the meaning defined above
Dictionary Entries Near value judgment
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“Value judgment.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/value%20judgment. Accessed 29 Nov. 2023.
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Kids Definition
value judgment
noun
: a judgment assigning a value (as good or bad) to something
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