How to Use for the simple reason that in a Sentence
for the simple reason that
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One of those is a treat rarely offered for sale, for the simple reason that so few were made.
—Robert Ross, Robb Report, 18 Sep. 2023
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Many marketers turn to first-party data for the simple reason that there’s no cost to obtain it.
—Paula Chiocchi, Forbes, 17 June 2022
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The rodents have existed outside state code for the simple reason that they weren’t known to be in the state.
—Mark Dee march 17, Idaho Statesman, 17 Mar. 2026
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In many cases, that was true, or at least seemed true, for the simple reason that the workflow was built on an in-office model.
—Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2022
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But Norway and roof rats have existed outside state code for the simple reason that they weren’t known to be in the state.
—Mark Dee march 31, Idaho Statesman, 31 Mar. 2026
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Their average life span is impossible to state, for the simple reason that half of those to ever form are still going.
—Max Fisher, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2022
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Trump’s vision of suburbia for the simple reason that this suburbia no longer exists.
—Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 24 Aug. 2020
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This is for the simple reason that the facilities would continue to spew pollution into the air.
—Chirag Bhakta, The Mercury News, 8 Feb. 2024
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The richest Americans don’t pay their fair share of income taxes for the simple reason that a lot of their income is never taxed.
—WSJ, 13 Mar. 2023
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The next to go was brisket bone for the simple reason that having to remove something called brisket fingers from in between joints sounded unappealing.
—Michael Holtz, The Atlantic, 14 June 2021
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Khan is likely focusing on starvation and restriction of aid for the simple reason that these crimes are the easiest to demonstrate.
—Oona A. Hathaway, Foreign Affairs, 24 May 2024
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Once baby universes are added to the game, the system is no longer in equilibrium, for the simple reason that there is no such thing as equilibrium.
—Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 19 Nov. 2019
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One downside of ours is that the scope for revenue-raising is much, much lower than with the mark-to-market tax or wealth tax, for the simple reason that people just don't borrow all that much.
—Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
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If parallel parking persists for the simple reason that Americans don’t want to give it up, fully self-driving cars may have little hope.
—Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 16 Oct. 2024
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Others in the industry are skeptical that prices would get that high for the simple reason that some Americans would likely balk at $6 gas and just drive less.
—Matt Egan and Chris Isidore, CNN, 17 May 2022
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Worse, his father suffered a nervous breakdown after his brother’s death and shunned Lino’s son for the simple reason that the boy’s name was also Joe.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2022
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That was for the simple reason that at that point in the franchise’s run, with only a single season under its belt, Survivor had never given away a new car at a challenge.
—EW.com, 13 Aug. 2025
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So the primary visual areas aren’t activated for the simple reason that your eyes are closed, there’s no visual input entering through your retina.
—Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 24 Aug. 2022
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Lee made an exception for the 1950s style for the simple reason that refrigerators weren’t common in households at the time her house was built.
—Andrea Darr, Kansas City Star, 30 Jan. 2024
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Advertisement The presidents agreed to bury a few of their differences for the simple reason that neither needs another crisis right now.
—Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov. 2023
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Finally, foreign fighters may be reluctant to bring violence back home for the simple reason that doing so could endanger their friends and relatives.
—Daniel Byman, Foreign Affairs, 1 Oct. 2014
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That thinking is misguided for the simple reason that our window to slash emissions or suffer catastrophic consequences is too brief for investing in renewables to save the day.
—Heather Souvaine Horn, The New Republic, 12 May 2023
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All of this scandal exists for the simple reason that money—not quality of play, certainly not any form of morality—has long been what matters most to the sport’s owners and governing bodies.
—Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 25 Feb. 2022
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Yet beneath such high-minded rhetoric, American brands pushed for greater access to China for the simple reason that its factories could turn out goods more cheaply than anywhere else.
—Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 14 Nov. 2023
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Even though no one in the administration has officially said it yet, the second goal is assumed to be off the table now for the simple reason that a national Afghan army no longer exists.
—Time, 23 Aug. 2021
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And it’s virtually guaranteed to be regressive, for the simple reason that Americans who went to college are a richer-than-average bunch.
—The Editors, National Review, 19 Nov. 2020
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Neither brand paid for sponsorship rights, but both got a bigger moment than most of the brands that did pay, for the simple reason that a logo recognizable enough to need covering is a logo that does not need to be shown at all.
—Sam Leveridge, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
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When the economy is coming out of a downturn productivity goes up for the simple reason that in the early stages of a recovery demand rises faster than companies can hire workers and add hours.
—Justin Lahart, WSJ, 6 May 2021
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Sperzel emphasizes that waiting for a heart is different than waiting for a kidney for the simple reason that the latter individual might survive the donation, the former will not.
—Steve Brozak, Forbes, 5 Apr. 2021
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Switching the machine off won’t work for the simple reason that a superintelligent entity will already have thought of that possibility and taken steps to prevent it.
—IEEE Spectrum, 8 Oct. 2019
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