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Recent Examples of rationalization
That said, if the Bills do lose Sunday, fans also could turn to rationalization to avoid the pain.
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Tim Graham, The Athletic, 22 Jan. 2025
As with the internet in the early 2000s, the hype might give way to a phase of rationalization, where only the most resilient and innovative players survive.
—Abdo Riani, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
Politicians can always find a rationalization to spend taxpayer money on an unending list of needy programs coupled with a self-congratulatory press release.
—Len Fasano, Hartford Courant, 8 Jan. 2025
This is a market rationalization, reshuffling what type of company, in what business culture, is fit to stand up and operate a robotaxi fleet.
—Richard Bishop, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
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Tim Graham, The Athletic, 22 Jan. 2025
As with the internet in the early 2000s, the hype might give way to a phase of rationalization, where only the most resilient and innovative players survive.
—Abdo Riani, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
Politicians can always find a rationalization to spend taxpayer money on an unending list of needy programs coupled with a self-congratulatory press release.
—Len Fasano, Hartford Courant, 8 Jan. 2025
This is a market rationalization, reshuffling what type of company, in what business culture, is fit to stand up and operate a robotaxi fleet.
—Richard Bishop, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rationalization
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Escobar disputed Bass’ rationale for firing Crowley, saying that an outside investigation into the fire is already underway.—
Andrew J. Campa,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Feb. 2025
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Federal agencies appear to be citing lackluster performance as rationale for many job cuts in termination letters, experts said.—
Annie Nova,Lorie Konish,Greg Iacurci,Ana Teresa Solá,
CNBC,
21 Feb. 2025
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Few Indian movies have so gently zeroed in on the way mental health conditions are used as a pretext to strip people of their humanity, even though the camera rarely probes Sundar enough to rebuild his personhood from the inside-out, or dramatize whatever haunts his waking moments.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
16 Feb. 2025
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They could soon be joined by tens of thousands of Syrians forcibly deported by neighboring countries that may use Assad’s departure as a pretext to expel them.—
Jesse Marks,
Foreign Affairs,
11 Feb. 2025
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Though multiple explanations for the defendants’ actions were offered at the trial, nothing quite fit.—
Katie Ebner-Landy,
The New Yorker,
22 Feb. 2025
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Instead, among the explanations for the gold rush are fears that Mr. Trump’s policies on tariffs and deportations could cause stronger inflation and worsen geopolitical tensions.—
Eshe Nelson,
New York Times,
21 Feb. 2025
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One way to take (some) of the pain out of accounting?—
Jasmin Suknanan,
CNBC,
27 Feb. 2025
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Talk to Me makes the case that understanding Haiti’s place in the New World might lead to a fuller accounting of the entire hemisphere’s history—including our own.—
Danielle Amir Jackson,
The Atlantic,
27 Feb. 2025
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These are typically hogwash for multiple reasons, not least of which is the combination of ideological bias with the pretense of ideological neutrality.—
Dan McLaughlin,
National Review,
18 Feb. 2025
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Instead, these conflicts were entered into under the pretense of strengthening national security or spreading democracy.—
Brendan Rascius,
Miami Herald,
7 Feb. 2025
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According to certain cosmologies, their souls take on the guise of marine creatures—an idea that struck me as strangely comforting.—
Julian Lucas,
The New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2025
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Those influences are often deliberate — coy and canny reworkings of previous themes and character types, presented again in new guises and winking reflections.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
11 Feb. 2025
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Yet to those who didn’t live through the Dončić experience — the front office executives, coaches and scouts who would love nothing more than to get their hands on a player of his ilk — all these justifications for the trade simply don’t compute.—
Sam Amick,
The Athletic,
26 Feb. 2025
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These are war crimes, and no amount of justification in the name of previous atrocities can change that reality.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
Newsweek,
25 Feb. 2025
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People have different reassurance languages, and using the wrong one can leave your partner feeling unsettled, even if the argument is technically over.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes,
2 Mar. 2025
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The argument as articulated so far by Trump administration officials appears to play down the economic benefits created by Social Security payments, infrastructure spending, scientific research and other forms of government spending that can shape an economy’s trajectory.—
Josh Boak,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Mar. 2025
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“Rationalization.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rationalization. Accessed 6 Mar. 2025.
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