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Recent Examples of ratiocination The underground man is someone who is cursed with ratiocination. Sean Illing, Vox, 9 Dec. 2024 No ratiocination similar to Parker’s point system. WIRED, 23 Feb. 2023 Once again, using the obtuse ratiocination of her characters, DeWitt aims at nothing less than expanding readerly consciousness, gesturing toward a world of untapped possibility freed from convention. Charles Arrowsmith, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2022 At the same time that professional men of science were forming the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Poe was lambasting professionals in favor of splendid amateurism and personal ratiocination. Colin Dickey, The New Republic, 21 July 2021 The surface of the table was taken up with all sorts of paraphernalia superfluous, not to say impedimental, to ratiocination. Hermione Hoby, New York Times, 1 June 2018 Outside of pure math our powers of ratiocination are overwhelmed by subjective decisions along the chain of propositions. Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 25 Apr. 2013
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ratiocination
Noun
  • According to the woman, her parents’ reasoning for denying her requests was rooted in a harsh lesson about independence.
    Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 26 Oct. 2025
  • While no specific storyline explanation was given on the broadcast for their exclusion beyond Pearce barring them earlier in the night, the reasoning reported ties into a larger, long-term strategy WWE has for Breakker.
    Andrew Ravens‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Each acquisition has its logic, made with great force at the time of the announcement only to be of-course-it-failed snickered at when the sale inevitably unravels.
    Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2025
  • She’s fallen under the sway of a fashionable worldview in which logic is paramount, and the realm of emotion and magic and even dæmons is just childish fancy.
    Lev Grossman, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2025

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“Ratiocination.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ratiocination. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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