for the simple reason that

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: because

I don't want to go for the simple reason that I'm very tired.

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Recent Examples on the Web The big hope — that somehow an ETF of private equity investments could be created — remains, for the moment, a pipe dream, for the simple reason that buying the underlying private equity assets and managing them in an ETF wrapper is exceedingly difficult. —

Bob Pisani, CNBC, 15 July 2024 Any first-year law student could have answered that question right on the exam, yet this had to go up to the Supreme Court for the simple reason that the plaintiffs could rely on sympathetic lower court judges to move things along. —

New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 15 June 2024 Khan is likely focusing on starvation and restriction of aid for the simple reason that these crimes are the easiest to demonstrate. —

Oona A. Hathaway, Foreign Affairs, 24 May 2024 The answer to that final question is the grimmest: Overwhelmingly, the women who could have spoken out are dead, for the simple reason that any Israeli who got close enough to a terrorist to be raped was close enough to be murdered. —

Bret Stephens, The Mercury News, 8 Mar. 2024 See all Example Sentences for for the simple reason that

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