as in reasonableness
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Recent Examples of rationality
Setting aside humanity, humility, charity, generosity, rationality, reality and other distractions, the Los Angeles fires add another element to what was already a fraught relationship between two egocentric political figures.
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Dan Walters, The Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2025
But transport yourself back to the early 20th century: at the same time that senseless World Wars were prompting Surrealists to lose faith in rationality, quantum physics came around, too, showing us yet another way in which common sense is good for little.
—Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 20 Dec. 2024
Her femininity and sexuality were contrasted with Octavian’s masculinity and rationality.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 6 Dec. 2024
Carr contended that liberals in the nineteenth century and again at Versailles thought that their international projects succeeded—and would again—because of the fundamental rationality of state actors and the harmony of their interests.
—Karl Polanyi, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2022
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Dan Walters, The Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2025
But transport yourself back to the early 20th century: at the same time that senseless World Wars were prompting Surrealists to lose faith in rationality, quantum physics came around, too, showing us yet another way in which common sense is good for little.
—Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 20 Dec. 2024
Her femininity and sexuality were contrasted with Octavian’s masculinity and rationality.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 6 Dec. 2024
Carr contended that liberals in the nineteenth century and again at Versailles thought that their international projects succeeded—and would again—because of the fundamental rationality of state actors and the harmony of their interests.
—Karl Polanyi, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rationality
Noun
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Focusing on Pansy’s inability to reconnect with the outside world, her demoralization by an incessant sense of doom, makes this a post-Covid film.—
Armond White,
National Review,
21 Feb. 2025
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Not much can be made of the expressions on their faces, but the contorted bodies are sketched to reveal a sense—even evoke a sound—of intermittent agony.—
Emmanuel Iduma,
ARTnews.com,
21 Feb. 2025
Noun
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For his sanity, Gates was convinced his processes were good processes.—
CJ Moore,
The Athletic,
19 Feb. 2025
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The film, about a young woman’s search for sanity after leaving a psychiatric hospital, will premiere in the festival’s new Berlinale Perspectives section dedicated to first features.—
Nick Vivarelli,
Variety,
7 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Quieting your mind stimulates the part of your brain that dampens the surges of adrenaline and cortisol accompanying stress. 3.—
Bryan Robinson,
Forbes,
22 Feb. 2025
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The Badgers, meanwhile, had been on fire lately and had ascended to a bona fide Final Four contender in the minds of many.—
Jim Root,
The Athletic,
22 Feb. 2025
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For that reason, Richardson usually doesn't agree to sit down for other productions.—
Ralphie Aversa,
USA TODAY,
20 Feb. 2025
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The reason the rabbit vibrator is called this was to get around obscenity laws in Japan when the products were exported.—
Amanda Chatel,
Glamour,
19 Feb. 2025
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“Rationality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rationality. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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