"justify" meaning in All languages combined

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        {
          "text": "One problem in music education is always having to justify our existence to other teachers."
        },
        {
          "text": "78% of people do not think that US military action in Iraq was justified."
        },
        {
          "text": "Killings are always wrong, and that is why attempts to justify them are always made."
        }
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        "If you justify something that people think is bad, you explain why it was good or why it had to happen that way."
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        {
          "text": "He feels that he can lie because the end justifies the means."
        }
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        "If the ends justify the means, the way of doing something is bad, but the result is worth it."
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        "If you justify text, you make the left side of each line of writing line up and the same with the right side."
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      "ipa": "/ˈdʒʌstɪfaɪ/"
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          "text": "One problem in music education is always having to justify our existence to other teachers."
        },
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        },
        {
          "text": "Killings are always wrong, and that is why attempts to justify them are always made."
        }
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