How to Use rationality in a Sentence

rationality

noun

• In the semiconductor world, the job of restoring rationality to the supply chain falls to the foundries.
  — Nicolás Rivero, Quartz, 5 May 2021
• My rationality squelched any impulse to let loose on the ice.
  — Morgan Korn, ABC News, 15 Feb. 2020
• After the crash, the market entered a kind of golden age of rationality and calm.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 13 June 2023
• Cook doesn't seem likely as a third, but there at least would be some rationality behind such a move.
  — Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz, USA TODAY, 8 June 2023
• Of course, someone who is in love is not going to be in peak form where rationality is concerned.
  — New York Times, 3 Dec. 2019
• And therein lies the rub with the Bolt's commitment to EV rationality.
  — Joey Capparella, Car and Driver, 28 Apr. 2020
• This incredible pair of cat boots Apologies, but all rationality has fled in the wake of these cat boots.
  — Madison Durham, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2020
• France has always been a realm of Cartesian rationality, of the abstract.
  — Rachel Donadio, The New York Review of Books, 24 June 2020
• The computer, which is the result of a five-year project, processes speech and is equipped with human-like thought and rationality.
  — Fox News, 19 June 2018
• From first page to last, D.O., as he was known by everyone in his agency, hammered home the doctrine of rationality.
  — Bruce McCall, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2020
• Christmas movies don’t have to abide by any standards of rationality.
  — Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 15 Dec. 2020
• The stockmarket, in so far as rationality can be ascribed to it, came down on the side of those saying that the central bank has not really started to ease.
  — The Economist, 30 June 2018
• But when Mearsheimer and Rosato begin to spell out their own theory of rationality, the book’s claims unravel.
  — Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2023
• The time is not for a knee-jerk reaction like a blanket ban, but at least introducing a little rationality in the field.
  — Kunal Sawhney, Fortune, 26 Jan. 2022
• If this isn’t a leap forward for fairness or rationality, it ...
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 2 May 2023
• Whatever, at some point during those 6 plays for 0 yards, Taylor crossed the line of rationality.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 4 Jan. 2022
• The winner proves the boldest, if most likely to allow hubris to overtake rationality.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 17 Jan. 2023
• The drop is a harsh dose of rationality much needed in an environment that rewards big promises and falls prey to hype, investors said.
  — Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2022
• This Angell took as a sign of rationality over emotion.
  — Daniel Yergin, The Atlantic, 15 Dec. 2020
• The dream of the 18th century was that a single, coherent set of values, rooted in rationality, could make a heaven on Earth.
  — Alison Gopnik, The Atlantic, 17 Mar. 2018
• There’s that element of loss that is visceral and not amenable to rationality.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2022
• The peculiar rationality of tourists allows them to be moved both by a desire to do what they are supposed to do in a place and a desire to avoid precisely what they are supposed to do.
  — Agnes Callard, The New Yorker, 24 June 2023
• But if there’s any rationality to crypto trading (hint: there’s not) then ether should rightfully plunge.
  — Matthew De Silva, Quartz, 3 Jan. 2020
• President Xi stressed that, on the Ukraine issue, voices for peace and rationality are building.
  — Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 21 Mar. 2023
• Humans as a species are very bad at applying rationality to their own emotions.
  — Megan Greenwell, Wired, 3 Mar. 2021
• In this regard, Boyle, 72, is sticking with a theme that has powered much of his fiction: rationality in collision with our feral side.
  — Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2021
• Really, all a rationality standard would ask is that states have a reason.
  — Emily Cooke, The New Republic, 6 May 2022
• At its core and through all its storylines, Foundation is a show, Pace says, about power, rationality, and time, and how all three can change a civilization.
  — Marah Eakin, WIRED, 14 July 2023
• Played by Enrico Natale (who edited the film), Rossi expresses concern with a rationality that will tease the hopes of viewers, but merely marks him as soft to the other two cops.
  — Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 18 Nov. 2021
• Their strengths are rationality, competence and a lack of squeamishness.
  — Molly Young, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024