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as in credibility
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as in applicability
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Recent Examples of validity
This has now been questioned, with the attorney assigned to handle the foreclosure questioning the validity of the judgment.
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Adam England,
PEOPLE,
17 June 2026
Despite the immense power of these evaluations, judges, attorneys and researchers have spent decades questioning the validity of psychologists’ determinations in custody disputes.
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Shira Moolten,
Sun Sentinel,
4 June 2026
Under the resolution, initiatives attributed to Ramallah to create a parallel land registry in Area C were declared to have no legal validity or standing.
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Amelie Botbol,
FOXNews.com,
3 June 2026
The Supreme Court spent much of the January oral arguments grappling with the biological advantage men tend to have over women in sports, and whether there is validity to claims that a man’s biological advantage can be suppressed by hormone drugs.
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Jack Birle,
The Washington Examiner,
27 May 2026
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Adam England,
PEOPLE,
17 June 2026
Despite the immense power of these evaluations, judges, attorneys and researchers have spent decades questioning the validity of psychologists’ determinations in custody disputes.
—
Shira Moolten,
Sun Sentinel,
4 June 2026
Under the resolution, initiatives attributed to Ramallah to create a parallel land registry in Area C were declared to have no legal validity or standing.
—
Amelie Botbol,
FOXNews.com,
3 June 2026
The Supreme Court spent much of the January oral arguments grappling with the biological advantage men tend to have over women in sports, and whether there is validity to claims that a man’s biological advantage can be suppressed by hormone drugs.
—
Jack Birle,
The Washington Examiner,
27 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for validity
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Instead, establish strong credibility and present a big-picture problem to be solved.
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Roberto Sacca, who was CEO of Miami United, and my coach Claudio Frean — men who had earned real credibility in that city — spent some of it on me.
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Perhaps, her stance shielded her from the awful truth of her protest’s unceasing applicability.
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According to investigators, the survival benefit was observed regardless of a patient’s RAS mutation status, suggesting the treatment could have broad applicability across metastatic pancreatic cancer populations.
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Services will range from individual wellness and sick-patient examinations to routine herd healthcare, breeding soundness exams, pregnancy examinations, on-farm consultations, lameness evaluations and certificates of veterinary inspection, A-State said.
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The Supreme Judicial Court upheld Brookline’s policy as legal, but legality isn’t the same as soundness.
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Its relevance was just too important to go amiss.
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The lesson is that without internal logic, any story will lose its believability and, with it, its appeal.
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Yes, the glossy aesthetic occasionally dulls the impact of the director’s more tactile sensibilities, and a few script contrivances stretch believability.
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If the Mets are looking to charge back into relevancy — in some fashion despite being trade deadline sellers — Lindor will need to return in vintage form to charge the clubhouse.
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Cultural relevancy requires topical commentary, a point of view, and an audience hungry for what a host and their guests have to say about what’s going on in the world.
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The study was small, and follow-up research has not yet confirmed those results with the same strength.
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Draw upon your well of strength.
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His latest work, The Urgency of Indigenous Values—available via JSTOR’s Path to Open program—not only examines the origins, wisdom, and pertinence of Haudenosaunee beliefs, but also confronts the inherent limitations of such examination.
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Shackleton has some pertinence for fans of Apple TV’s sci-fi alternate-history series For All Mankind, in which prospectors from the United States and the Soviet Union compete for water resources inside the crater.
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“Validity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/validity. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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