Definition of "warranted" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of warrant. (verb)
• Authorized with a warrant. (adjective)
• Deserved, necessary. (adjective)

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• "Q When are the President's phone calls warranted in this process?"
• "Though Jean-Claude Trichet didn't toughen his message on inflation from last month, he reiterated that "very close monitoring" of inflation is "warranted" - a formulation of words that in January raised questions as to when the cost of borrowing might rise."
• "Critics may be trying to decide whether the probability claims of researchers are warranted, which is laudable, but they appear to also be motivated by an uncomfortableness with the censorship that the findings might lead to, a career investment in other methods of media research, and a personal attachment to some violent media."