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Recent Examples of justifiability
The mixing of politics and scientific justifiability goes back even to Trump’s first term.
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Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 19 Aug. 2025
Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 19 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for justifiability
Noun
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Agent Ammie is the Special Agent, Review Fraud Division, who investigates every single review on Liners to verify its validity and unbiasedness.—
Nia Bowers,
USA Today,
12 May 2026
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Only a few of the candidates explicitly raise doubts about the validity of the 2020 election on their campaign websites.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
11 May 2026
Noun
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Playwright Mark Rosenblatt takes a leaf from the Peter Morgan playbook of using newsy real-life controversies with direct contemporary applicability to spark balanced drama.—
Chris Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
11 May 2026
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These factors reduce the applicability and appeal to venture-style funding.—
Samuel Mueller,
Fortune,
12 Apr. 2026
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That focus gives his practice a very specific kind of relevance.—
Matt Emma,
USA Today,
13 May 2026
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The apparent conflict highlights the ambiguous rules around recall status and its relevance in a trial that’s been peppered with globe-trotting billionaires.—
David Ingram,
NBC news,
13 May 2026
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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.—
Tim Brinkhof,
JSTOR Daily,
22 Apr. 2026
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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.—
Stephen Clark,
ArsTechnica,
16 Apr. 2026
Noun
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This is just another example of the seriousness with which Brunson approaches his job, and a reason why New York has returned to relevancy since Brunson joined the franchise in 2022.—
James L. Edwards III,
New York Times,
3 May 2026
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Troubled waters In a digitally evolving society, Kodak has been fighting to keep its place and relevancy.—
Laya Neelakandan,
CNBC,
11 Apr. 2026
Noun
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There were no odd noises or squealing bearings to indicate the fan was having trouble.—
Tim Carter,
Hartford Courant,
16 May 2026
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My mother-in-law recently returned from New Zealand bearing gifts for her children and their spouses.—
Judith Martin,
Mercury News,
15 May 2026
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“Justifiability.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/justifiability. Accessed 20 May. 2026.
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