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Examples of value judgment in a Sentence
I am not making value judgments, I am simply presenting the facts.
lexicographers do not make value judgments about words when deciding whether they should be entered in the dictionary
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Allow me this time to make a value judgment on the kinds of art being peddled on the blockchain on sites like Opensea.
—Zain Jaffer, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2024
The latter is ultimately a value judgment; military analysis alone cannot dictate where to draw the line.
—Stephen Biddle, Foreign Affairs, 28 Aug. 2024
Acknowledging that no perfect version of Earth exists—that extinction is as normal as any other evolutionary process, that the evolutionary-selection pressures humans are putting on the planet are as natural as the ones plants created in the Late Devonian—frees us to cop to those value judgments.
—Leigh Phillips, The Atlantic, 9 July 2024
These are value judgments about what cultural work demands and deserves.
—Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 10 June 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1889, in the meaning defined above
Dictionary Entries Near value judgment
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“Value judgment.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/value%20judgment. Accessed 26 Nov. 2024.
Kids Definition
value judgment
noun
: a judgment assigning a value (as good or bad) to something
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