How to Use rationalization in a Sentence

rationalization

noun

• 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
• There’s no rationalization for leaving the lineup so short for so long.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 19 July 2022
• And then there’s this gem on male rationalization for dating younger women.
  — Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 15 July 2022
• This is the episode where every lie, avoidance and rationalization comes out.
  — Peter White, Deadline, 21 May 2025
• Still, few concrete steps can be taken that go beyond post-hoc rationalizations of what worked for other firms.
  — Alexander Puutio, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
• Osak frames the current moment as a rationalization phase rather than a growth cycle.
  — Javier Hasse, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
• That said, if the Bills do lose Sunday, fans also could turn to rationalization to avoid the pain.
  — Tim Graham, The Athletic, 22 Jan. 2025
• None of this makes any sense, except as desperate rationalizations from a man who cannot face facts and admit defeat.
  — Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 16 June 2026
• Clearly, there can be no reasonable rationalization for owning a car like this.
  — Frank Markus, Car and Driver, 2 Jan. 2023
• There is no excuse and no rationalization for a vulgar, inhumane act that senselessly took a life.
  — David Faris, Newsweek, 27 Dec. 2024
• Two at-odds facts can both be true, and all of us are susceptible to arrogance and self-serving rationalization.
  — Carol Quillen, Time, 21 Feb. 2026
• At the brewery, there was some rationalization and acceptance.
  — Jesús Rodríguez, Washington Post, 18 July 2024
• But of course, there will be another rationalization available to debt ceiling deniers.
  — Chris Mooney, Discover Magazine, 27 July 2011
• 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
• These rationalizations satisfied her engineering mind, but were not what drew lay people to the projects.
  — Brett Berk, Robb Report, 29 Feb. 2024
• In it, Plait essentially makes the same kind of rationalization.
  — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 22 Dec. 2014
• The human talent for rationalization is a product of many hundreds of thousands of years of adaptation.
  — Adrian Bardon, Scientific American, 26 June 2020
• 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 the case of ghosting, moral disengagement aids and abets the formation of rationalizations.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 10 June 2025
• DeSantis has offered a few limp rationalizations for his demand, but nothing that would overcome the sheer gall of this re-write of the rules.
  — Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2026
• The fact that even Alawites declined to fight for him over the past week suggests that this rationalization of support has finally crumbled.
  — Hussein Ibish, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2024
• Too little, as with Tyler Hamilton’s doping, erodes through small rationalizations.
  — Mary Crossan, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
• In other words, the case was solid, which is why Trump’s arguments centered on rationalization, not denial.
  — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 15 July 2024
• Hate and rationalization of all the provenances of brutality.
  — David Bezmozgis, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2025
• 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
• Industry sources expect a dramatic rationalization of the store base.
  — Footwear News, 14 Jan. 2026
• In the month since trading Parsons, Jones has offered a steady stream of rationalizations, some of which sound more plausible than others.
  — Michael Silver, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
• Whether that’s a reality or a rationalization will only be known once the hire materializes.
  — Zach Berman, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2026
• 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