How to Use judgment call in a Sentence

judgment call

noun
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  • The rules aren't clear in this case, so officials are required to make a judgment call.
  • Just the same, keep your risks down and make each risk a judgment call.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Nov. 2019
  • And—this is a judgment call—most of them taste pretty rank.
    — Matt Jancer, WIRED, 19 Nov. 2022
  • Time will tell whether Bragg’s judgment call bears fruit.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Now, the unforced error is a judgment call, with a healthy gray area.
    — Craig O’Shannessy, New York Times, 8 June 2018
  • That left an important judgment call in the hands of the jurors.
    — Erik Wemple, Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Brake early, always give the right of way, and never expect others on the road to make the safest judgment call.
    — Andrew Boloy, Sun Sentinel, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Luna, Sherrod said, often opened his heart, and his home, to strangers — a poor judgment call that could have led to his demise.
    — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 13 July 2024
  • Yet exactly when the Fed lowers rates is a judgment call.
    — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 20 May 2024
  • If the amount due is caused by a simple math error, my judgment call would be to pay it (but your accountant should be the judge).
    — Julie Jason, The Mercury News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Lightning and wind are the biggest concerns, and the decision on how to react is not left up to a judgment call.
    — al, 20 May 2022
  • Those doctors said the treatment did meet the standard of care, and some decisions were judgment calls.
    — Anne Saker, Cincinnati.com, 23 July 2019
  • In the moment, that was quite a poor judgment call, because my emotions and adrenaline were so high.
    — Rob Reed, Forbes, 4 May 2021
  • In Black’s first season, the Padres came within a judgment call of extending a wild-card tiebreaker game here.
    — Dennis Lin, sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 Sep. 2017
  • Deciding which words are common enough for the bot to recommend has been a judgment call.
    — Aatish Bhatia, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2023
  • Many parents will want to test in that situation—t’s a judgment call.
    — Tara Haelle, Wired, 5 Mar. 2022
  • Others, though, say the decision to arrest or to not arrest is a judgment call — a call that could go either way.
    — Eileen Kelley, sun-sentinel.com, 11 July 2021
  • Home plate umpires are at the heart of baseball; every single pitch can require a judgment call.
    — Mark T. Williams, Discover Magazine, 9 Apr. 2019
  • And the ancestry companies have to make judgment calls.
    — Gisele Grayson, Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2018
  • Sometimes the researchers have to make a judgment call when language differs slightly from the Beaufort Wind Scale.
    — Benjamin Cassidy, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 June 2024
  • An autonomous car might have to make a judgment call to either hit a child or run its passengers off the cliff.
    — Cyrus Hadavi, Forbes, 5 May 2021
  • But this is a judgment call and your preference could be different.
    — Jack Guttentag, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2021
  • The Nationals wanted to play the game under protest, but protests are not permitted on judgment calls.
    — Jesse Yomtov, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2019
  • Can your team make a judgment call about how long the window has been closed, plus the situation the customer is describing?
    — Serenity Gibbons, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2023
  • The judgment call to release the third movie depended on the success of the second movie, which seems to show there is still plenty of interest in the world of the Na’vi and Pandora.
    — Time, 23 Jan. 2023
  • The judgment of the casualties versus the importance of the target is something that will be a judgment call.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2023
  • Madison, who has guided more than 70 clients to the summit of Everest, believed that the threat of a lawsuit over a judgment call for safety was beyond the pale.
    — Frederick Reimers, Outside Online, 30 Dec. 2021
  • Smith's strategy is a bit of a judgment call — and one that isn't be suggested by everyone.
    — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 28 Jan. 2021
  • Swedish authorities looked at the facts and made a different judgment call.
    — Faye Flam Bloomberg Opinion (tns), Star Tribune, 15 Sep. 2020
  • Disclosures that do reveal sources are usually a judgment call, but a tie shouldn’t go to the policy runner.
    — David V. Gioe, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2024

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