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Recent Examples of rationality
Newsom further revealed the limits of his rationality with his remarks on the high-speed rail boondoggle.
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Sal Rodriguez, Oc Register, 9 Jan. 2026
Discipline and rationality define the Mets’ offseason so far, but a path to landing a big-name free agent always existed.
—Will Sammon, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2026
Debates about Cold War rationality reprised an earlier discourse about criminal nature versus nurture and the educability of felons.
—Big Think, 27 Nov. 2025
There is also no need to worry about the rationality of these states.
—Moritz S. Graefrath, Foreign Affairs, 19 Nov. 2025
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Sal Rodriguez, Oc Register, 9 Jan. 2026
Discipline and rationality define the Mets’ offseason so far, but a path to landing a big-name free agent always existed.
—Will Sammon, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2026
Debates about Cold War rationality reprised an earlier discourse about criminal nature versus nurture and the educability of felons.
—Big Think, 27 Nov. 2025
There is also no need to worry about the rationality of these states.
—Moritz S. Graefrath, Foreign Affairs, 19 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rationality
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Courts have established a standard referred to as objective reasonableness when considering whether a use of force was justified, relying heavily on the perspective of the specific officer in that specific scenario.—
Claudia Lauer,
Fortune,
26 Nov. 2025
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Objective reasonableness, meanwhile, asks whether a hypothetical reasonable person would have also used force given the same circumstances.—
Noe Padilla,
IndyStar,
6 Nov. 2025
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Much of the crowd has–or knows someone who has, contributed to the sense of community that permeates the space.—
Jessica Chapel,
Condé Nast Traveler,
15 Feb. 2026
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As a three-term Mecklenburg County commissioner, my daily concern is delivering common-sense solutions to our problems as efficiently as possible to keep the tax rate low.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
14 Feb. 2026
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Voters must understand that the college affordability crisis was engineered by perverse incentives and that free-market reforms can help restore sanity to the system.—
Neetu Arnold,
Washington Post,
10 Feb. 2026
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Save your rosary beads — and your sanity — for whenever Sweden comes on the TV.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
7 Feb. 2026
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Naumov doesn’t enter with the same pressure as Malinin but has already exceeded expectations in his mind.—
Greg Rosenstein,
NBC news,
13 Feb. 2026
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For the launch colorway, a vivid graphic may initially bring to mind heat maps with its application of blue, green, yellow and red — but the choice was actually made to invoke a temporal fold, a theoretical concept of bending spacetime to move faster than the speed of light.—
Ian Servantes,
Footwear News,
13 Feb. 2026
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Gordon pointed to a January study published in the journal Science as highlighting the reason behind the decline in overdose deaths.—
Alex Riggins,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Feb. 2026
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My sense is that the reason for this disconnect—the loss of power that faith traditions and philosophies once had to influence progressive movements—is that so much of it is digital now.—
Jay Caspian Kang,
New Yorker,
10 Feb. 2026
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“Rationality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rationality. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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