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Discover LudwigThe word "Justifying" is correct in written English
It is typically used when explaining or providing reasons for an action, decision, or belief. Example: "She spent hours justifying her choice to pursue a different career path."
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Justifying
verb
Present participle of justify
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When justifying a longer or more expensive commute, workers will generally seek higher wages in order to compensate for their loss of leisure time.
Not quite a masterstroke on Hodgson's part, but not far off and fully justifying the manager's belief that Sweden might be susceptible to defending crosses.
Section 30 of the Crime (Sentences) Act 1997 already allows a secretary of state to free a life prisoner on licence if there are exceptional circumstances justifying the prisoner's release on compassionate grounds.
In justifying the desire for a new city, Madbouly said that something had to be done to lighten the load on Cairo, whose projected population will be 40 million by 2050.
Justifying a subsidy for solar on the basis that there are other subsidies in Australia is hardly a justification.
Former Crew midfielder Cole Grossman managed to provide that certainty, justifying Garth Lagerwey's decision to deal Yordany Alvarez this winter.
In justifying his decision, the prosecutor said Palfreeman, who was sentenced in 2009 for a stabbing murder, had served "limited" time in jail and had been "repeatedly sanctioned" for bad behaviour by prison authorities.
From then on, each time they went to the centre they were encouraged to write down what they hoped to achieve the following week, rather than justifying their previous performance in applying for jobs.
There seems no end to Angela Merkel's troubles: first the Euro crisis and then the completely unexpected resignation of the president, Horst Köhler, a former International Monetary Fund (IMF) official who had been handpicked by the German chancellor in 2004 and who had been expected to play an important role in justifying the belt-tightening in the wake of the financial crisis.
I'm not justifying it, I'm explaining it I'm justifying it.
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Wilson was loquacious, self-justifying, scornful, though anxious to please, fundamentally warm-hearted.
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