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Recent Examples of unjustified
This reaction isn’t entirely unjustified when examining most of the 80-proof bottles on the market.
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Chris Perugini, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Tesla hired a trio of prominent new lawyers and asked a judge to find the verdict legally unjustified and throw out the case, or to order a new trial.
—Abhirup Roy, USA Today, 17 Sep. 2025
No doubt, these groups recognize the slippery slope that would open up if the government can simply deny constitutional rights to individuals based on broad and unjustified discrimination based on identity.
—The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 7 Sep. 2025
Northwestern paid the price for its rash, excessive, clumsily handled and unjustified firing of Fitzgerald, a firing for which the editorial board has again stated its support.
—Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2025
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Chris Perugini, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Tesla hired a trio of prominent new lawyers and asked a judge to find the verdict legally unjustified and throw out the case, or to order a new trial.
—Abhirup Roy, USA Today, 17 Sep. 2025
No doubt, these groups recognize the slippery slope that would open up if the government can simply deny constitutional rights to individuals based on broad and unjustified discrimination based on identity.
—The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 7 Sep. 2025
Northwestern paid the price for its rash, excessive, clumsily handled and unjustified firing of Fitzgerald, a firing for which the editorial board has again stated its support.
—Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unjustified
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The influencer, who was in her 20s and had garnered over 300,000 followers on TikTok, allegedly wanted to cut ties with Choi due to his coercive instructions and unreasonable scheduling, according to the reports.—
Latoya Gayle,
PEOPLE,
6 Oct. 2025
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As Philadelphia gears up for hopefully a return to the playoffs in 2025-26 (although title expectations would be probably an unreasonable expectation now), the team is not being particularly precious with its previous rotational thoughts.—
Alex Kirschenbaum,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Oct. 2025
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Jim Edwards InvestingMarkets Back in the ’90s a Fed chief warned about ‘irrational exuberance’ in the markets.—
Geoff Colvin,
Fortune,
30 Sep. 2025
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Those poor scientists – their federal funding has been taken away, their research programs scrapped, and their rigorous scientific findings ignored in favor of one man’s irrational, uninformed opinion.—
Rafael Perez,
Oc Register,
25 Sep. 2025
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Russia has called the accusations unfounded.—
Robert Birsel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Oct. 2025
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About an hour later, the lockdown was lifted -- and authorities later said the initial reports were unfounded.—
Luke Barr,
ABC News,
30 Sep. 2025
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The composition has many hallmarks of surrealism, including dream logic – the strange, flowing and often illogical progression of images reflecting the unpredictable nature of dreams – metamorphosis and psychic ambiguity.—
Sally Jane Brown,
The Conversation,
29 Sep. 2025
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Instead, the extended frenzy of construction has generated an illogical new rule of real estate: As supply increases, so does cost.—
Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
22 Sep. 2025
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Umpires take a lot of unwarranted criticism across Major League Baseball, but this is one instance where Scott Barry deserves to take some heat for this decision.—
Drew VonScio,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Sep. 2025
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Though his paranoia is not unwarranted.—
Bill Goodykoontz,
AZCentral.com,
24 Sep. 2025
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Many of the people opining and whining about how this moment could be as bad or worse than the 2000 bust are uninformed or ahistorical.—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
28 Sep. 2025
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Those poor scientists – their federal funding has been taken away, their research programs scrapped, and their rigorous scientific findings ignored in favor of one man’s irrational, uninformed opinion.—
Rafael Perez,
Oc Register,
25 Sep. 2025
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The most extreme version of this debate over Kirk’s views on Israel emerged with shocking velocity after his death, in the form of groundless claims that he’d been killed by the Israelis.—
Ben Smith,
semafor.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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These radically groundless and unfounded allegations end now.—
Lea Veloso,
StyleCaster,
11 Sep. 2025
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Though the two actors have a kind of slacker ease in the nonsensical volleys, this lower temperature approach too often misses the work’s humor, horror and emotional resonance.—
Frank Rizzo,
Variety,
29 Sep. 2025
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The Italian Brainrot Meme, Explained Italian Brainrot is a semi-ironic trend popularized by Gen Alpha, using AI image generators to spew out an absurd, nonsensical cast of characters.—
Dani Di Placido,
Forbes.com,
19 Sep. 2025
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“Unjustified.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unjustified. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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