How to Use value judgment in a Sentence

value judgment

noun
  • I am not making value judgments, I am simply presenting the facts.
  • Nowadays lines are a fact of life, stripped of value judgment.
    — Sadie Stein, Town & Country, 17 Feb. 2021
  • The people know that their value judgments are quite as good as those taught in any law school – maybe better.
    — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 2 Apr. 2020
  • The department insists this is not a value judgment.
    — David Kilmnick, New York Daily News, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Many in the public health community have deemed the protests worth the risks; that's a value judgment.
    — Faye Flam Bloomberg Opinion (tns), Star Tribune, 15 Sep. 2020
  • Our decision to opt out of the term isn’t an effort to place a value judgment on the term, or even to make a big statement.
    — Time, 22 June 2018
  • 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
  • Difference in and of itself is not something that needs to come under some value judgment.
    — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2022
  • Much of the learning for high-value judgment comes from getting things wrong for years and hearing about it from people smarter than you.
    — Neo Lee, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • These are value judgments about what cultural work demands and deserves.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 10 June 2024
  • This is not a value judgment on the goodness or evil of SUVs.
    — Jim Resnick, Ars Technica, 20 Sep. 2020
  • To say that the Russian president is modern, in fact, is not to make a value judgment at all.
    — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 8 Feb. 2022
  • The former would be a value judgment; the latter is a business decision.
    — Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 14 May 2018
  • Avoid assigning any value judgment as to likelihood or extent, at this point.
    — Harvey Levine, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Feb. 2025
  • At its core, this debate is a value judgment about what belongs in a basic high school education.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 27 Mar. 2026
  • This is one reason why scientists need to be crystal-clear that fitness is a statement of fact and not a value judgment.
    — Peter Byrne, Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2013
  • And, if nothing else, that was a business decision and a value judgment that could have gone another way.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 5 July 2019
  • This is not a value judgment but a description of the industry’s business model.
    — Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2020
  • Clients value judgment and empathy.
    — Dan Cavanaugh, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
  • And there should be no value judgment attached to taking, or not taking, antidepressants.
    — Laura Newberry, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Change is different and the value judgment on AI is yet to be determined and will evolve quickly.
    — Karen Hill, Forbes, 4 May 2023
  • Behind each one of those criteria lies a value judgment, and behind that, an ideology.
    — David Rosen, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2017
  • In non-coding jobs, there are degrees of functionality informed by value judgments.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The latter is ultimately a value judgment; military analysis alone cannot dictate where to draw the line.
    — Stephen Biddle, Foreign Affairs, 28 Aug. 2024
  • That isn’t a value judgment, or even necessarily a criticism.
    — Zack Beauchamp, Vox, 17 July 2018
  • This isn't really about issuing condemnation or a making value judgment and lodging a charge of hypocrisy.
    — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 6 Sep. 2017
  • But the manner in which this precept is interpreted is a value judgment, not some inexorable legal conclusion.
    — Jay Willis, GQ, 7 Oct. 2017
  • Now, admittedly, the above piece was written from the prism of my worldview, with all its ideological pretensions and value judgments.
    — David Harsanyi, National Review, 5 Feb. 2020
  • But the decision to use one main telecast Emmy to represent only a portion of the genre’s programming is also a value judgment.
    — Joe Reid, Vulture, 10 May 2026
  • The concept of fault is a value judgment, not an objective assessment, and responsibility exists in the eye of the beholder.
    — Jay Willis, GQ, 15 Feb. 2018

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