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as in rationality
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as in feasibility
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reasonableness
Noun
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But Sheinbaum seemed determined to give at least the appearance of rationality.—
Stephania Taladrid,
New Yorker,
21 Apr. 2025 -
His decision to side with keeping the government open at the expense of legislative branch power came from a place of rationality, not rashness.—
Philip Elliott,
TIME,
14 Mar. 2025
Noun
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In this sense, Biden’s brand of post-neoliberalism fed the body but not the soul.—
Jennifer M. Harris,
Foreign Affairs,
22 Apr. 2025
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In a sense, this ichor functioned like a power source or electricity, circulating through the robot’s bronze limbs and fueling his movements and actions.—
Sofia Giannuzzi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
22 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Thomas pleads for his sanity in his paranoid whispers, his voice twisting and flopping like a fish on a line.—
Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
25 Apr. 2025
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Your business will reach new levels of excellence while protecting your team and your sanity.—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes.com,
14 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Singer, the contractor, and others said current price hikes do not threaten the viability of rebuilding Los Angeles County homes damaged by the wildfires.—
Roger Vincent,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Apr. 2025
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Passing on costs to the consumer can happen over time, but not overnight, explained Lamothe, who said she’s already been on the phone with her lawyer about assessing the go-forward viability of the company.—
Alex Sherman,
CNBC,
17 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Trust in Trump’s economy slips, new poll finds Many Americans voted with their wallets front of mind during the 2024 presidential election.—
Rebecca Morin,
USA Today,
24 Apr. 2025
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The real culprit, in the West Wing’s mind, remains Powell.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
23 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Today, great-power rivalry is back, and systemic war is a very real possibility.—
A. Wess Mitchell,
Foreign Affairs,
22 Apr. 2025
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Yet there’s the possibility of a final stop along the way — Trakai Historical National Park — which revolves around a majestic 14th-century island castle.—
Joe Yogerst,
Forbes.com,
22 Apr. 2025
Noun
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In a striking parallel to the 1990s, epochal thinking about the potentialities of a high technology society has once again upended politics.—
Jacob Bruggeman & Casey Eilbert / Made by History,
TIME,
3 Mar. 2025
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Practically, then, the translator reads with an eye to understanding the affordances offered by a text—to re-creating its potentialities, rather than merely offering a lexical equivalent.—
Max Norman,
The New Yorker,
7 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Every scene is a test — of belief, plausibility, modern faithlessness.—
Armond White,
National Review,
20 Dec. 2024
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Yet the balance Dead to Me struck was fragile; if the plot could get cartoonish, then the connection between the two leads, Cardellini and Christina Applegate, and the plausibility of their characters’ bond helped suspend disbelief.—
Judy Berman,
TIME,
12 Dec. 2024
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“Reasonableness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reasonableness. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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