How to Use rationalization in a Sentence

rationalization

noun

• Rich, to me, there's a lot of rationalization on the Trump side of things that comes to a form of whataboutism.
  — NBC News, 13 Mar. 2022
• There is, to be sure, a healthy dose of rationalization in all this.
  — Mark Landler, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2020
• One of the fastest ways to value is through stack rationalization.
  — Jonathan Fianu, Forbes, 18 Aug. 2022
• In the near term, Cahall expects Iger and his team to focus on content and cost rationalization.
  — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Dec. 2022
• There’s no rationalization for leaving the lineup so short for so long.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 19 July 2022
• This highlights many of the brain’s rationalization habits.
  — Kenneth R. Rosen, Wired, 30 Mar. 2022
• And then there’s this gem on male rationalization for dating younger women.
  — Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 15 July 2022
• The result is an industry dependent not just on the rationalization of labor, but on the systemic abuse of its workforce.
  — Alex Park, The New Republic, 24 Jan. 2022
• In it, Plait essentially makes the same kind of rationalization.
  — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 22 Dec. 2014
• Based on the previous Disney+ shows, odds are that the finale will offer some unconvincing bit of rationalization for Clint’s killing spree.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 15 Dec. 2021
• The human talent for rationalization is a product of many hundreds of thousands of years of adaptation.
  — Adrian Bardon, Scientific American, 26 June 2020
• This kind of rationalization is a feature of our society.
  — Charles M. Blow New York Times, Star Tribune, 8 Mar. 2021
• Denial sometimes gets confused with rationalization, which is when people try to explain away or diminish the threat of the source of anxiety.
  — Megan Marples, CNN, 16 Aug. 2020
• Clearly, there can be no reasonable rationalization for owning a car like this.
  — Frank Markus, Car and Driver, 2 Jan. 2023
• Briney makes James wide-eyed but not naive, smart enough to accept incongruous new parts of the picture without buying every rationalization that’s handed to him.
  — John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Sep. 2022
• An easy rationalization for why the Stars have stumbled is that the intensity of round-robin games pales in comparison to normal playoff games (never mind that the other team has to play in the same circumstances).
  — Matthew Defranks, Dallas News, 8 Aug. 2020
• This macabre little tale captures in miniature the strategies of rationalization and normalization that make up the banality of evil.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
• The disruptions of the pandemic have served as an extended rationalization for parents to hover — a chance to own their worrying instead of hiding it.
  — Julia Edelstein, Curbed, 15 Feb. 2023
• But of course, there will be another rationalization available to debt ceiling deniers.
  — Chris Mooney, Discover Magazine, 27 July 2011
• This is more than enough content to drive a strong slate of content to support our businesses, and frankly, represents a rationalization for a prior period of over-investment.
  — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 June 2023
• The Jefferies note contrasted these big three firms’ headcount in contrast with their falling revenues, illustrating the mismatch—and the rationalization that needs to happen.
  — Alena Botros, Fortune, 7 Dec. 2022
• Inevitably, Roy Kapur feels that there will be consolidation in the streaming space with the nearly 50 platforms reducing to 10 in the next three to five years and rationalization in current production practices.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 30 Dec. 2022
• Application rationalization could be the key to your next breakthrough in IT practice management.
  — Vivek Ahuja, Forbes, 11 July 2022
• The good news is that there are brilliant, experienced lawyers who are not entangled in the tentacles of monopoly money, or the tentacles of Obama-era rationalization.
  — Zephyr Teachout, The New Republic, 18 Dec. 2020
• The opening scene in Uncle Tom’s Cabin features a slave trader explaining that black people do not have the same tender emotions as white people, a rationalization for selling their children for profit.
  — Alex Lubet and Steven Lubet, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Sep. 2020
• Portfolio rationalization and reducing the number of providers, thus increasing the volume of work to fewer providers, can be a route to get pricing and efficiency concessions.
  — Peter Bendor-Samuel, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2023
• According to Pettitt, this understanding leads to rationalization, or attempts to explain death and in many cases overcome it through beliefs in the afterlife.
  — Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 5 Oct. 2018
• The rationalization that big bag limits, and hunter opportunity are critical in Alaska, and hunting is never going to hurt the overall population of a bird species.
  — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Oct. 2022
• Testilying creates the post-hoc rationalization for discretionary decisions made on the street to fashion order and enforce control.
  — Stuart Schrader, The New Republic, 27 May 2021
• Awe that the internet itself was being shaken to its foundations by this thing that three young hackers had built in a flurry of adolescent emotions, whims, rivalries, rationalizations, and mistakes.
  — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 14 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024