syllogistic

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for syllogistic
Adjective
  • The policy becomes logical when considering the incubation periods of STDs and how those timelines differ between illnesses.
    Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 24 Jan. 2025
  • In the absence of that, there may be a need for an arbiter, with Igbokwe and Berwick’s boss, Langley, as the logical choice.
    Peter White, Deadline, 24 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Office vacancies in Salt Lake City are decreasing and below the national average, according to data analytic firm Moody's.
    Kim Bojórquez, Axios, 21 Jan. 2025
  • This approach sped its time to market with AI and analytic innovation, but has also helped keep new models in production; blockchain has reduced support issues and model recalls by over 90%.
    Scott Zoldi Jordan T. Levine, Harvard Business Review, 20 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • As brutal as the action looks on the surface, there is some rational trading taking place, even if some of the moves in individual stocks end up being overdone.
    Zev Fima, CNBC, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Our rational impulses are so automatic, and so strong, that we’re now faced with the problem of what to do with the irrational.
    Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 25 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Sanchez also did not have a valid driver's license, according to the affidavit.
    Kiki Intarasuwan, CBS News, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Others believe the practice undermines the valid goal of requiring workers to come back to work sites to improve productivity.
    Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 21 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • More support for Calvert-Lewin — and empowering attacking players One of the main criticisms of the football Dyche’s sides played was that there was little guidance or semblance of a coherent blueprint in the attacking third.
    Patrick Boyland, The Athletic, 22 Jan. 2025
  • And unlike the Metrorail projects, where the station, apartments, shops and other amenities are clustered closely together on compact former parking lots to form tightly coherent urban districts, Upland Park would be spread out over two far larger, separate and disconnected properties.
    Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 22 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Knowing a priori which stocks will outperform the market is also much more difficult than reviewing the trends that occurred in the past.
    Wayne Winegarden, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Alongside this effort, wildlife trafficking should be designated as a predicate offense for wiretap authorizations, which would empower authorities to start gathering intelligence without having to prove a link to other crimes a priori.
    Vanda Felbab-Brown, Foreign Affairs, 15 May 2023
Adjective
  • But Betancourt’s approach feels leaden with reference and citation, too often leaning on a catalog of cultural properties to advance an argument that is, at its heart, empirical.
    Jake Nevins, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2025
  • The Congressional Budget Office states that there does not appear to be any direct empirical evidence pointing to a medical cost offset.
    Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • All of this could have been avoided with any number of reasonable, common-sense approaches to addressing homebuilding on a statewide basis.
    Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Orange County Register, 27 Jan. 2025
  • The moves alienated longtime shoppers who valued Kohl’s for its quality clothes at reasonable prices.
    Maria Sole Campinoti, CNN, 27 Jan. 2025
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“Syllogistic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/syllogistic. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.

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