Justify
Score
Score verb - To mark with or as if with a line or groove.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- However, some sports coaches justify this, stating that their job is to score points, and it was the opposing team's job to keep their team from scoring.
Source: Curb Stomp Battle / Sports - Then they try to justify why the other didn't score (I'm actually a double agent, triple agent, your goal is on top of mine so anytime you score it's a point for me, I'm actually a badminton player disguised as a football player, etc.) until it turns into a game of Calvinball.
Source: Double Reverse Quadruple Agent - Anyone who ever talks about the unlicensed NES game Caltron/Myriad 6 in 1 will justify its low score on the sole basis that all the games on the cartridge are total rip-offs of other games.
Source: They Copied It, So It Sucks
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