Thesaurus results for RATIONALES

rationales

noun

plural of rationale

as in explanations

a statement given to explain a belief or act the rationale for starting the school day an hour later is that kids will supposedly get an extra hour of sleep

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Recent Examples of rationales Freed from all the entanglements that come with having to launch a ground invasion, air war can overfly not just morality and law but arguments, rationales, the calibration of risks to rewards and of suffering to satisfaction. —

Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 9 Apr. 2026 Investors look for reasons to take profits, even though the rationales may have nothing to do with the market action. —

Michael Hiltzik, Boston Herald, 3 Apr. 2026 Instead, the White House offered frequently shifting rationales for its war and little outreach to the Iranian resistance. —

Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2026 Indeed, that’s one of the main rationales for banks issuing these lifestyle cards. —

Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 30 Mar. 2026 Among the chief rationales for the lower tax rate on capital gains is to counter the effect of inflation. —

Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2026 The administration has offered shifting rationales and timelines since the start of the conflict. —

Samy Magdy, Chicago Tribune, 9 Mar. 2026 His rationales and aims change constantly. —

The Week Uk, TheWeek, 7 Mar. 2026 But each of these rationales demands a different strategy; eliminating an imminent threat involves a different set of operations than establishing peace in the region (or the world). —

Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 7 Mar. 2026

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Noun

As robots became more humanlike, participants’ explanations increasingly framed those neutral colors as industrial or practical.

— Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 8 Apr. 2026
The results showed that users preferred a combined approach that included both pre-journey explanations and real-time narration.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 8 Apr. 2026