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
Noun
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What is your assessment of the AI boom in China at the moment?—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
28 Sep. 2025
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Jones' assessments of the situation featured everything from benign, informational updates to suggesting Parsons could get hit by a car while discussing the implications of signing the 26-year-old star to a long-term deal.—
Jacob Camenker,
USA Today,
28 Sep. 2025
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The main reason for this drop, according to Stephanie Guichard, senior economist of global indicators at the Conference Board, is consumers’ appraisal of current job availability, which declined for the eight consecutive month.—
Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
29 Sep. 2025
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The city, at the behest of then-mayoral adviser Jay Goldstone, commissioned an appraisal from Colliers International for all of Horton’s office space, or what’s been described in public records as around 650,000 square feet of space.—
Jennifer Van Grove,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 Sep. 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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Initial estimates predicted two to three years, and design work only began in December, the city said.—
Kirsten Fiscus,
Nashville Tennessean,
29 Sep. 2025
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My rough estimate is that Gibson will likely be around 45-50, Talbot around 30 and the rest will be allocated to Cossa in a ramp-up to next season.—
Max Bultman,
New York Times,
29 Sep. 2025
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“Value judgment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/value%20judgment. Accessed 3 Oct. 2025.
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