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Recent Examples of unjustified
The White House and members of Congress are working to end unjustified and politicized debanking, but that issue is completely unrelated to the debate over data aggregator access to consumer bank data.
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Patrick Gleason, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
While many Democrats are uneasy about the executive action and call it unjustified, Bowser said there could be benefits.
—Zac Anderson, USA Today, 11 Aug. 2025
The jury concluded the homicide was an unjustified murder.
—Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 July 2025
The assault was unjustified, as the man was not given a chance to comply with commands, prosecutors said.
—Natalie Demaree, Miami Herald, 25 July 2025
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Patrick Gleason, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
While many Democrats are uneasy about the executive action and call it unjustified, Bowser said there could be benefits.
—Zac Anderson, USA Today, 11 Aug. 2025
The jury concluded the homicide was an unjustified murder.
—Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 July 2025
The assault was unjustified, as the man was not given a chance to comply with commands, prosecutors said.
—Natalie Demaree, Miami Herald, 25 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unjustified
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The Justice Department in its June 2024 report on problems with policing in Phoenix found that police delayed medical assistance to people who appeared to be incapacitated as a result of the use of force by officers and used unreasonable force on people who had already been wounded by officers.—
Elena Santa Cruz,
AZCentral.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Investors had initially feared that ASDA’s undercuts would lead to market leaders Tesco and Sainsbury’s having to lower prices to an unreasonable point in order to maintain their market shares.—
John Choong,
Forbes.com,
1 Sep. 2025
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Maura’s performance makes Maria Angeles so magnetic and eccentric — earthily practical on some matters, dizzily irrational on others, and sympathetically true to herself on all fronts — that all the film’s other players want for detail and texture by comparison.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
4 Sep. 2025
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The roll call of people across the decades who have had access to nuclear weapons includes many who are considerably less rational than the irrational rest of us.—
Rivka Galchen,
New Yorker,
2 Sep. 2025
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The letter follows the ouster of CDC director Susan Monarez just one month into her tenure after a disagreement over vaccine policy with Kennedy, a vaccine skeptic who has promoted a controversial and unfounded theory that links vaccines to autism.—
Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy,
USA Today,
4 Sep. 2025
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Brazil’s top electoral court has already banned Bolsonaro from running in elections until 2030 over abuse of power while in office and casting unfounded doubts on the country’s electronic voting system.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
2 Sep. 2025
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Sure, it's been criticized for what some call over-the-top clichés and illogical plot twists, but for some, at least, that's part of the fun.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
31 Aug. 2025
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Further, this assumes AI systems are actually free from the biases present in their training data, which is illogical.—
Luis E. Romero,
Forbes.com,
27 Aug. 2025
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Negative reviews can heavily influence the purchasing decisions of readers, librarians, teachers, and booksellers, even if the accusations in those reviews are unfair and unwarranted.—
Kevin Dickinson,
Big Think,
2 Sep. 2025
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Levying unwarranted taxes can have negative impacts on a jurisdiction.—
Nathan Goldman,
Forbes.com,
1 Sep. 2025
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According to new research from SoFi, 44% of students and parents feel uninformed about student loans but are probably too afraid to ask questions.—
Brian Walsh,
Fortune,
7 Sep. 2025
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Once the movie slows down, the uninformed are able to ease more readily into the plot of the film.—
Wilson Chapman,
IndieWire,
22 Aug. 2025
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The totally groundless firing of Dr. Erika McEntarfer, my successor as Commissioner of Labor Statistics at BLS, sets a dangerous precedent and undermines the statistical mission of the Bureau.—
Anna Commander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 Aug. 2025
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Putin talks with Iranian foreign minister Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday told Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi in Moscow that aggression against Iran was groundless.—
Susan Miller,
USA Today,
24 June 2025
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Enjoy Motor City as pastiche, however, and the nonsensical bits can just about be read as part of the film’s retro charm.—
Stephanie Bunbury,
Deadline,
30 Aug. 2025
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And that calculus has become a nonsensical proxy for academic rigor – a college Squid Game, and one that became even more important post-Covid with the rise of test-optional admissions.—
Ryan Craig,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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“Unjustified.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unjustified. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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