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Recent Examples of unjustified
In two cases, judges ruled that Koester made unjustified arrests.
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Sarah Metz, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2024
The assumption was that all advisors deliver the same returns, which made my higher fee seem unjustified.
—James Brewer, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024
James, for example, reflecting on his son Bronny’s cardiac arrest in the summer of 2023, Butler coping with the death of his dad, Tatum bonding with his son Deuce, and Sabonis talking about a wholly unjustified All-Star game snub.
—Sean Gregory, TIME, 9 Oct. 2024
Ultimately, the court found those allegations unjustified, and Justin was reunited with his mother.
—Eli Cahan, Rolling Stone, 22 Sep. 2024
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Sarah Metz, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2024
The assumption was that all advisors deliver the same returns, which made my higher fee seem unjustified.
—James Brewer, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024
James, for example, reflecting on his son Bronny’s cardiac arrest in the summer of 2023, Butler coping with the death of his dad, Tatum bonding with his son Deuce, and Sabonis talking about a wholly unjustified All-Star game snub.
—Sean Gregory, TIME, 9 Oct. 2024
Ultimately, the court found those allegations unjustified, and Justin was reunited with his mother.
—Eli Cahan, Rolling Stone, 22 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unjustified
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Left in the dust ‘Cruise’ driverless robot taxis are seen at a parking lot as California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) revokes its self-driving car permit and citing ‘unreasonable risk to public safety’ in San Francisco, California, USA on October 24, 2023.Kristian Burt, CNBC, 11 Dec. 2024
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To determine whether those amounts posed an unreasonable risk of harm, the agency compared them to a specific benchmark — the highest concentration of formaldehyde measured by government monitors in outdoor air between 2015 and 2020.Sharon Lerner and Al Shaw, CNN, 5 Dec. 2024
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The lines — in banana yellows, tangerine oranges, cranberry reds — twist and turn and suggest an irrational understanding of how the universe works.Ray Mark Rinaldi, The Denver Post, 16 Dec. 2024
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Conversely, what then could be more wasteful, more undesirable, and more irrational than negating a large share of these conversion gains by wasting them?Vaclav Smil, WIRED, 12 Dec. 2024
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This charge, no less than a modern-day blood libel, is just the latest attack in Amnesty's longstanding campaign of lawfare against and vilification of the State of Israel, having previously accused the Jewish state of the equally unfounded charge of apartheid.Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
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Warrior Essentials is one of many companies that trade on unfounded theories about the dangers of vaccines, which have proliferated in the alt-right social media landscape since the pandemic — ideas that are not backed by science.Aria Bendix, NBC News, 4 Dec. 2024
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Curiosity In The Billable Hour World In a world where every minute counts, taking what may feel like the long way around can seem illogical.Hunter McMahon, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
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This is a holiday movie, so Avery and Logan decide to handle this situation in the most illogical way possible.Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 27 Nov. 2024
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Michael Soller, Lara’s chief spokesperson, disputed the criticisms and said the department’s regulatory review process gives it the authority to prevent unwarranted rate hikes and to ensure that insurers are making progress in meeting the 85% coverage goal.Laurence Darmiento, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2024
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Kirsten Hillman, Canada's ambassador to Washington, said Trudeau successfully conveyed to Trump and his key Cabinet nominees that comparisons between the U.S.-Canada and U.S.-Mexico borders are unwarranted.Mark R. Weaver, Newsweek, 4 Dec. 2024
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The following cogitations, therefore, are not totally uninformed noisy opining.Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
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Theres been a lot of negative noise around Lukaku which has been lazy and uninformed imo.Liam Tharme, The Athletic, 30 June 2024
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Yet there’s much more to be said about Ohanian’s original article, as well as the glee with which conservatives seized on its headline claim as the basis for largely groundless attacks on California’s economic policies.Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2024
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That’s based on the groundless notion that disability is easy to apply for and receive.Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2024
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Congress should reaffirm the CRA by recognizing that agency guidance is invalid unless submitted to both Congress and GAO.Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
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The 63-year-old's motion, filed Wednesday, argues that his original guilty plea to a conspiracy charge is invalid because the count was later dismissed by the court, rendering the outcome unconstitutional.Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
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“Unjustified.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unjustified. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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