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Yet providers have their own justifiable complaints about how health insurers deploy their networks to restrict coverage, such as prior authorization and other bureaucratic hurdles that providers must jump in order to receive compensation for caring for their patients.
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Dylan Scott, Vox, 6 Dec. 2024
For those who follow the film festival circuit, Bong Joon-ho’s 2019 Palme d’Or win at the Cannes Film Festival for Parasite seemed like an inevitable and justifiable distinction.
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He was sentenced to one year in prison, suspended for two years, under the Military Service Act, which allows for sentences of up to three years for evading mandatory military service without justifiable cause.
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And seeing inaction or insufficient action from Washington in the face of this intimidation would give them justifiable cause for further alarm.
—Kyle Balzer, Foreign Affairs, 21 Nov. 2024
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Dylan Scott, Vox, 6 Dec. 2024
For those who follow the film festival circuit, Bong Joon-ho’s 2019 Palme d’Or win at the Cannes Film Festival for Parasite seemed like an inevitable and justifiable distinction.
—Nicholas Bell, SPIN, 28 Oct. 2024
He was sentenced to one year in prison, suspended for two years, under the Military Service Act, which allows for sentences of up to three years for evading mandatory military service without justifiable cause.
—Stella Kim, NBC News, 26 Nov. 2024
And seeing inaction or insufficient action from Washington in the face of this intimidation would give them justifiable cause for further alarm.
—Kyle Balzer, Foreign Affairs, 21 Nov. 2024
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“Justifiable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/justifiable. Accessed 25 Dec. 2024.
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justifiable
adjective
jus·ti·fi·able
ˌjəs-tə-ˈfī-ə-bəl 
: capable of being justified
justifiable reliance
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