de jure

adjective

Definition of de jurenext
as in statutory

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  1. statutory
  2. constitutional
  3. proper
  4. right
  5. justifiable
Adjective
  • Taxpayers may qualify for relief due to a good compliance history, reasonable cause, or a statutory exception.
    — Jamela Adam, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026
  • The commission and its inspectors general would have full independent statutory subpoena power to compel documents and testimony during investigations, an independent budget and independent authority to release reports after finding wrongdoing.
    — Collin Corbett, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of statutory
Adjective
  • Ken Paxton is a strong conservative who is going to fight for low taxes, low regulations, lots of jobs, to secure the border, to support law enforcement, to protect our constitutional rights.
    — NBC news, NBC news, 30 Aug. 2026
  • That is because the ruling was technical, and not based on the constitutionality of the president’s order, said Leslie Gielow Jacobs, a constitutional scholar at the University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento.
    — Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 30 Aug. 2026
Definition of constitutional
Adjective
  • Potassium is a mineral your body needs for proper heart and muscle function.
    — Zia Sherrell, HEALTH, 31 Aug. 2026
  • Bailey, who also serves as Bank of England governor, warned about the absence of proper guardrails around the technology, underscored by recent incidents in which frontier AI models being tested went rogue.
    — Anna Cooban, CNN Money, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of proper
Adjective
  • Still, there’s something about going back to basics at the dawn of a new season that feels especially right.
    — Laura Jackson, Vogue, 31 Aug. 2026
  • Starting right tackle Terence Steele hasn’t had a good training camp.
    — Jon Machota, New York Times, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of right
Adjective
  • The valuation of Fernandez is entirely justifiable within the context of the huge fees paid by several Premier League clubs, and specifically City, for high-level central midfielders this summer.
    — Liam Twomey, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2026
  • Having lost its attempt to invalidate the FCC’s process for issuing financial penalties, Verizon now wants another chance to argue that the fine itself wasn’t legally justifiable.
    — Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of justifiable
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“De jure.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/de%20jure. Accessed 2 Sep. 2026.

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