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
• Or perhaps that rationalization is part of the same hollow fantasy that fuels the DCC.
  — Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 13 July 2024
• 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
• This is absurd for a couple reasons, chief among them that there’s no real rationalization for trying to overturn an election, among the highest of crimes in a democracy.
  — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 29 Mar. 2024
• At the brewery, there was some rationalization and acceptance.
  — Jesús Rodríguez, Washington Post, 18 July 2024
• These rationalizations satisfied her engineering mind, but were not what drew lay people to the projects.
  — Brett Berk, Robb Report, 29 Feb. 2024
• 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
• But as Lynn shows, one of the main differences between then and now is that, compared to today, fewer Americans accepted such rationalizations during the Gilded Age.
  — Zephyr Teachout, Foreign Affairs, 8 Dec. 2020
• 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 book is about a love story, but Lily’s rationalization of her abusive surroundings, combined with the book and its subsequent sequel’s focus on romance, means the novel often has an incongruous tone.
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 8 Aug. 2024
• The obvious rationalization here is that plenty of colleges and universities do have their own police forces with full peace officer status.
  — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 10 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024