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Recent Examples of unjustified
Prosecutors argued Hankison's use of force was unjustified, put people in danger and violated the civil rights of Taylor and her three neighbors.
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Tesfaye Negussie, ABC News, 21 July 2025
In the counterclaim, Harvey Weinstein asserted that Bob Weinstein and David Glasser took millions in unjustified payments before the bankruptcy, leaving it vulnerable to insolvency.
—Gene Maddaus, Variety, 21 July 2025
In turn, Newsom has signed off on generous contracts for the union, even manipulating compensation comparison studies to justify unjustified raises.
—The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 2 July 2025
This request may be barking at the moon, but DeSantis should veto SB 268, a huge, unjustified public records exemption that would allow most public officials to keep secret their home addresses and personal telephone numbers.
—Orlando Sentinel, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 June 2025
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Tesfaye Negussie, ABC News, 21 July 2025
In the counterclaim, Harvey Weinstein asserted that Bob Weinstein and David Glasser took millions in unjustified payments before the bankruptcy, leaving it vulnerable to insolvency.
—Gene Maddaus, Variety, 21 July 2025
In turn, Newsom has signed off on generous contracts for the union, even manipulating compensation comparison studies to justify unjustified raises.
—The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 2 July 2025
This request may be barking at the moon, but DeSantis should veto SB 268, a huge, unjustified public records exemption that would allow most public officials to keep secret their home addresses and personal telephone numbers.
—Orlando Sentinel, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unjustified
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The policy and specialist support environment is going to need to become more sophisticated, and more responsive to balancing needs and addressing conflict, unfairness and unreasonable requests / restrictions.—
Nancy Doyle,
Forbes.com,
6 Aug. 2025
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Timothy Mousseau, a biologist at the University of South Carolina who studies organisms and ecosystems in radioactive regions, told the Times that the DOE's explanation that the wasps gathered legacy contamination for their homes is not unreasonable.—
Beth Mole,
ArsTechnica,
4 Aug. 2025
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Our worries are often dismissed as irrational—planes are much safer than cars, etc.—
Elaine Godfrey,
The Atlantic,
6 Aug. 2025
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Nothing adds depth to an irascible curmudgeon quite like an irrational love of pets that do not love you back.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
6 Aug. 2025
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History shows that fears of large-scale job displacement from offshoring were unfounded.—
Anjana Susarla,
Forbes.com,
11 Aug. 2025
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The hype around the off-label use of the immunosuppressant rapamycin to prevent aging and increase longevity could be unfounded.—
Hannah Millington,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Aug. 2025
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The system is confusing, ill-explained and illogical.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
2 Aug. 2025
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The conference also welcomes back Maryland, which always felt more at home there, and rids itself of its illogical Bay Area/Dallas outposts.—
Jim Root,
New York Times,
1 Aug. 2025
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The vaunting acclaim the retrospective elicited seems largely unwarranted, though in several brilliant sequences scattered throughout his work, the unruly Rozier achieved an impulsive kind of mastery.—
James Quandt,
The New York Review of Books,
31 July 2025
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Glenn said just a day earlier that the hoopla on social media was unwarranted as many feared that the latest Jets’ signal caller could miss significant time like his predecessor, Aaron Rodgers, did in his first season in New York.—
Paulina Dedaj,
FOXNews.com,
26 July 2025
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If all rational, moral individuals wanted what the order provided, then critics were either irrational and uninformed or immoral and disingenuous.—
STACIE E. GODDARD,
Foreign Affairs,
28 July 2025
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According to multiple social media posts, attendees criticized Live Nation for proceeding with the festival despite weather forecasts and for failing to provide adequate communication after the cancelation, leaving many lost and uninformed.—
Diana Leyva,
The Tennessean,
2 July 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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If the result is not a multiple of 10, then the credit card number is invalid.—
Jack Murtagh,
Scientific American,
12 Aug. 2025
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For example, in the EMEA region, 60% of clicks on programmatic ads within the sports category on mobile apps were invalid in the first quarter of 2025, as were 14% of all mobile app traffic clicks in the region.—
Roman Vrublivskyi,
Forbes.com,
12 Aug. 2025
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“Unjustified.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unjustified. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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