How to Use without reason in a Sentence

without reason

idiom
  • Caution, in this case, does not come without reason though.
    Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 29 Apr. 2023
  • In 1966, the name Fern was changed to Frieda without reason, according to the center.
    Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 2 June 2023
  • There has been much talk of risk centered on credit cards and offices, and not without reason.
    Telis Demos, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2023
  • His play from game to game is scrutinized, but not without reason.
    Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 5 May 2023
  • Up to this point, much of the attention on AI and elections has focused on deepfakes, and not without reason.
    Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Inflation fears have grown over the past several months and not without reason.
    Juan Carlos Medina, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Many commenters were in awe of how the situation shook out and why a mom would shut down a little girl like that, seemingly without reason.
    Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 7 June 2023
  • In addition, the company can terminate the plan at year-end without reason and with six months’ notice.
    Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 19 July 2023
  • But her lack of casual-wear content isn't without reason.
    Seventeen, 1 Sep. 2022
  • Property damage during protests, though, isn’t done without reason, and the destruction of these businesses comes from a place of pain and mourning and, yes, anger.
    Asia Ewart, refinery29.com, 1 June 2020
  • Those around them might be equally baffled that the person has stopped speaking, seemingly without reason.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 1 Sep. 2021
  • Chipper and caring as Sunny seems, Suzie’s mistrust might not be entirely without reason: The series opens with the unsettling sight of a droid beating a man to death.
    Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • This era, not without reason, is often referred to as the golden age of productivity.
    Marc Levinson, Foreign Affairs, 12 June 2017
  • Even meat producers complain, not without reason, that they’re criticized for not tracking cattle when the government has deprived them of the tools to do it.
    Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2022
  • Feeling abandoned and shunned by your child without reason must be incredibly painful.
    Elaine Welteroth, Anchorage Daily News, 14 May 2023
  • Feeling abandoned and shunned by your child without reason must be incredibly painful.
    Elaine Welteroth, Anchorage Daily News, 14 May 2023
  • Landlords are also not allowed to charge some renters more for their security deposit than others without reason.
    Theara Coleman, The Week, 6 Feb. 2023
  • That answer is likely yes, but not permanently or without reason.
    Michael Casagrande | McAsagrande@al.com, al, 25 Aug. 2021
  • But when a large amount of cash is found in Ali’s wallet — money that his Turkish immigrant parents insist was meant for the purchase of a gift — accusations of racial profiling are slung, and not without reason.
    Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Over the next hour, Winston and Johnson said, they were handcuffed without reason, separated from their crying babies, and handled by police who, at least at first, did not wear masks to protect against the coronavirus.
    BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2020
  • However, two other officers on the scene, as well as the man’s mother and sister, witnessed Dupree pepper-spray him without reason, according to court documents.
    Julia Marnin, Miami Herald, 18 June 2024
  • Concerns about the environmental impacts of NFTs aren’t without reason.
    Mark Knapp, PCMAG, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Even before the recent siege on the Capitol by men wearing body armor and carrying zip ties, the idea of civilians learning tactical skills may have conjured up images of militias and far-right violence—and not entirely without reason.
    Rachel Monroe, Wired, 15 Jan. 2021
  • Ritual without reason has led modernity in many wrong directions.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
  • Lacking evidence for masks is a sufficient reason to justify their removal — compulsion should not continue without reason — but this paucity is only half of the question.
    Daniel Buck, National Review, 5 Feb. 2022
  • While many investors don’t need much encouragement to stay invested after a hot streak, the skeptical minority is conditioned to expect the opposite, and not without reason.
    WSJ, 19 July 2023
  • Democracies throw their political opponents in jail without reason, murder their families and voting is a joke.
    For Carroll County Times, Baltimore Sun, 17 Mar. 2024
  • With pulsing music, minimal dialogue and plenty of shock value, the film creates a world where people can defy categorization and violence without reason is always lurking in the shadows.
    NBC News, 13 Oct. 2021
  • Parents told me of both insurance plans and obstetricians skeptical of a powerful new medication never tested in pregnant women—and not without reason.
    Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 19 Mar. 2024
  • The less charitable version is reasoning without reason.
    Errol Morris, Star Tribune, 6 July 2021

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