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• Lee made an exception for the 1950s style for the simple reason that refrigerators weren’t common in households at the time her house was built.
  — Andrea Darr, Kansas City Star, 30 Jan. 2024
• One of those is a treat rarely offered for sale, for the simple reason that so few were made.
  — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 18 Sep. 2023
• In many cases, that was true, or at least seemed true, for the simple reason that the workflow was built on an in-office model.
  — Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2022
• Many marketers turn to first-party data for the simple reason that there’s no cost to obtain it.
  — Paula Chiocchi, Forbes, 17 June 2022
• The richest Americans don’t pay their fair share of income taxes for the simple reason that a lot of their income is never taxed.
  — WSJ, 13 Mar. 2023
• Worse, his father suffered a nervous breakdown after his brother’s death and shunned Lino’s son for the simple reason that the boy’s name was also Joe.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2022
• Their average life span is impossible to state, for the simple reason that half of those to ever form are still going.
  — Max Fisher, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2022
• Others in the industry are skeptical that prices would get that high for the simple reason that some Americans would likely balk at $6 gas and just drive less.
  — Matt Egan and Chris Isidore, CNN, 17 May 2022
• The next to go was brisket bone for the simple reason that having to remove something called brisket fingers from in between joints sounded unappealing.
  — Michael Holtz, The Atlantic, 14 June 2021
• Once baby universes are added to the game, the system is no longer in equilibrium, for the simple reason that there is no such thing as equilibrium.
  — Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 19 Nov. 2019
• Trump’s vision of suburbia for the simple reason that this suburbia no longer exists.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 24 Aug. 2020
• Become a Subscriber All of this is particularly bad news for Klein, for the simple reason that people keep mistaking the two women for each other.
  — Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2023
• But this feels different for the simple reason that there already has been such a dynamic shift just weeks ago, with the move of Max Strus into the starting lineup and the reconfiguring of the rotation.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2022
• Yes, for the simple reason that even intelligent readers like French can fail to grasp the nuance and complexity of the novel, allowing righteousness to blind them to the need for close reading.
  — Howard W. French, The New York Review of Books, 22 Dec. 2022
• Yes, for the simple reason that even intelligent readers like French can fail to grasp the nuance and complexity of the novel, allowing righteousness to blind them to the need for close reading.
  — Howard W. French, The New York Review of Books, 22 Dec. 2022
• Even though no one in the administration has officially said it yet, the second goal is assumed to be off the table now for the simple reason that a national Afghan army no longer exists.
  — Time, 23 Aug. 2021
• Advertisement The presidents agreed to bury a few of their differences for the simple reason that neither needs another crisis right now.
  — Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov. 2023
• Yet beneath such high-minded rhetoric, American brands pushed for greater access to China for the simple reason that its factories could turn out goods more cheaply than anywhere else.
  — Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 14 Nov. 2023
• Most follow the sacrosanct traditions of the New York steakhouse set decades ago, with menus deliberately very similar for the simple reason that those dishes are what guests expect and crave.
  — John Mariani, Forbes, 18 May 2022
• All of this scandal exists for the simple reason that money—not quality of play, certainly not any form of morality—has long been what matters most to the sport’s owners and governing bodies.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 25 Feb. 2022
• So the primary visual areas aren’t activated for the simple reason that your eyes are closed, there’s no visual input entering through your retina.
  — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 24 Aug. 2022
• When the economy is coming out of a downturn productivity goes up for the simple reason that in the early stages of a recovery demand rises faster than companies can hire workers and add hours.
  — Justin Lahart, WSJ, 6 May 2021
• Sperzel emphasizes that waiting for a heart is different than waiting for a kidney for the simple reason that the latter individual might survive the donation, the former will not.
  — Steve Brozak, Forbes, 5 Apr. 2021
• And it’s virtually guaranteed to be regressive, for the simple reason that Americans who went to college are a richer-than-average bunch.
  — The Editors, National Review, 19 Nov. 2020
• That thinking is misguided for the simple reason that our window to slash emissions or suffer catastrophic consequences is too brief for investing in renewables to save the day.
  — Heather Souvaine Horn, The New Republic, 12 May 2023
• That thinking is misguided for the simple reason that our window to slash emissions or suffer catastrophic consequences is too brief for investing in renewables to save the day.
  — Heather Souvaine Horn, The New Republic, 12 May 2023
• Finally, foreign fighters may be reluctant to bring violence back home for the simple reason that doing so could endanger their friends and relatives.
  — Daniel Byman, Foreign Affairs, 1 Oct. 2014
• After each interruption, the world gradually resumed its path of greater trade integration, and the same will likely happen this time for the simple reason that isolation impairs wealth.
  — Paul Podolsky, WSJ, 12 Sep. 2022
• Experts and public health officials say vaccination is also a better option than natural infection for the simple reason that someone doesn't have to get sick to reap the benefits.
  — Miriam Fauzia, USA TODAY, 13 Aug. 2021
• To summarize: The odds aren’t great, for the simple reason that many of the functions—communications, shopping, payments—are already quite capably handled by countless other apps and their behemoth backers.
  — Christopher Mims, WSJ, 5 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 18 Oct 2024