as in assessment
an opinion on the nature, character, or quality of something
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Recent Examples of value judgment
The spirit of the Ojai festival need not be conveyed by a laundry list of composers and works or by value judgments.
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Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2025
To do otherwise would have been to engage in what the justices often decry: substituting their own political value judgments for the will of Congress and the executive’s enforcement of that will.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 29 Mar. 2025
Gail Gottehrer, Del Monte Fresh Produce Company, Inc. AI Shouldn’t Make the Final Call
One of the fundamental acts of a leader is to make value judgments — pursue opportunity A, decline opportunity B, promote employee A, let go of employee B.
—Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 20 Mar. 2025
The rating is not making a value judgment about a politician who changes positions on an issue.
—Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu, Austin American Statesman, 24 Apr. 2024
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Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2025
To do otherwise would have been to engage in what the justices often decry: substituting their own political value judgments for the will of Congress and the executive’s enforcement of that will.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 29 Mar. 2025
Gail Gottehrer, Del Monte Fresh Produce Company, Inc. AI Shouldn’t Make the Final Call
One of the fundamental acts of a leader is to make value judgments — pursue opportunity A, decline opportunity B, promote employee A, let go of employee B.
—Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 20 Mar. 2025
The rating is not making a value judgment about a politician who changes positions on an issue.
—Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu, Austin American Statesman, 24 Apr. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for value judgment
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According to figures from a housing assessment released this April, the median house value in Fayetteville has grown 275% in the last two decades, and the median gross rent has increased 78%.—
Juan Cordoba,
Arkansas Online,
5 Oct. 2025
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Yet once someone had suggested the inherent instability in a relationship between writers, there seemed to be no way to defuse the assessment.—
Catherine Lacey,
New Yorker,
5 Oct. 2025
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In their announcement, Syracuse cited a Goldman Sachs appraisal that has the creator economy approaching $500 billion by 2027.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
6 Oct. 2025
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This involves forcing carriers to issue appraisal provisions, a process which was made mandatory in the Lone Star State as of September 1 under Senate Bill 458, a legislation filed without Governor Greg Abbott’s signature this summer.—
Giulia Carbonaro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Oct. 2025
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Anyone with good donor support and a staff with great portal evaluation abilities can compete.—
Stewart Mandel,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2025
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The success criteria for Mercor’s tasks are written by human experts, but the marking is done by AIs, which Mercor says agreed with human graders 89% of the time, helping to scale the evaluations.—
Nikita Ostrovsky,
Time,
1 Oct. 2025
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Sometimes, the impression is given that Israel thinks everyone hates them so why care about winning over hearts and minds?—
Jordan King,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Sep. 2025
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Still, Netflix’s voluminous library seems to leave the impression among viewers like Lerner that such decisions are handed down flippantly.—
Shirley Li,
The Atlantic,
30 Sep. 2025
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That tends to cloud perceptions.—
Josh Yohe,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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That perception was shattered by the 24-hour ecosystem of divisive clips, some new, most from a half decade ago, all intended to feed anger and division.—
Keith Wilson,
Time,
2 Oct. 2025
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Here’s the good news before diving into the bad, and that’s this movie at a net $50M production cost with tax credits from Vancouver and New Mexico won’t lose much, estimates being in the $10M-$15M range.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
6 Oct. 2025
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Still, critics say the sheer number of clinics — some estimates put it at 5,000 in Istanbul alone — makes enforcement difficult.—
Rebecca Rosman,
NPR,
6 Oct. 2025
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“Value judgment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/value%20judgment. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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