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Recent Examples of rationality
As the physician and philosopher Jodi Halpern has pointed out, Osler believed that a doctor should aspire to be an island of calm in stormy seas, mastering her own unruly emotions with the force of rationality.
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Rachel Pearson, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
These categories were not simply seen as opposite, but in a hierarchy with objectivity and rationality as superior.
—Sara Giordano, The Conversation, 4 Sep. 2025
Our findings raise many interesting questions about rationality and ethics.
—Thomas Talhelm, Scientific American, 22 Aug. 2025
Everyone who dies in the film—and everyone does die, including Santino (Marcelo Michinaux), Pedro’s young son—does so because Pedro and Jimi act without thought given to consequences, much less to rationality.
—Andy Crump, Time, 9 Aug. 2025
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Rachel Pearson, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
These categories were not simply seen as opposite, but in a hierarchy with objectivity and rationality as superior.
—Sara Giordano, The Conversation, 4 Sep. 2025
Our findings raise many interesting questions about rationality and ethics.
—Thomas Talhelm, Scientific American, 22 Aug. 2025
Everyone who dies in the film—and everyone does die, including Santino (Marcelo Michinaux), Pedro’s young son—does so because Pedro and Jimi act without thought given to consequences, much less to rationality.
—Andy Crump, Time, 9 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rationality
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Perhaps even more unsettling is the larger sense that there are other, unrelated sets of rules hemming us in on all sides, regulating seemingly every aspect of life with varying degrees of reasonableness.—
Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
9 Sep. 2025
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Olson, however, doesn't trust that the law will safeguard consumers, pointing to the vagueness inherent in the law's language charging the commission with evaluating a project’s reasonableness.—
Marissa Meador,
IndyStar,
21 Aug. 2025
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Filler shots of chauffeurs, champagne and colossal walk-in closets with pristine designer clobber glistening and gleaming from glass shelves centred around trays and trays of priceless jewels assault the viewer’s senses between almost every scene.—
Alejandra Gularte,
Vulture,
5 Nov. 2025
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For all the fans’ cries for the team to go all in, there’s still the matter of dollars and sense.—
Jeff Zrebiec,
New York Times,
5 Nov. 2025
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In the film, the pair star as young couple Grace and Jackson, who move from New York City to Jackson’s hometown in Montana and become parents, as Grace struggles to maintain her sanity after giving birth.—
Kirsten Chuba,
HollywoodReporter,
2 Nov. 2025
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After touring for 30 years, LeAnn Rimes has learned a thing or two about maintaining her sanity on the road.—
Melinda Newman,
Billboard,
28 Oct. 2025
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Familial pairs choose the experimental merge for a variety of reasons, including a mother with Alzheimer’s linking her mind with her daughter; teenage brothers, one terminally ill; a man and his pregnant fiancée; a father and his addict daughter.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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In Hoyer’s mind, the Tokyo Series represented the culmination of the organization’s long-running efforts to establish connections in Nippon Professional Baseball, highlight the Cubs as a brand overseas and turn Chicago into a destination for Japanese players.—
Patrick Mooney,
New York Times,
2 Nov. 2025
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Part of the reason why there are so few of these conversations about podcasting is a general lack of criticism for narrative audio.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Nov. 2025
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What's really behind the baby bust The reasons Americans choose not to have children are hotly debated in academic circles, with many attributing America’s baby bust to shifting priorities and societal norms.—
Jessica Guynn,
USA Today,
6 Nov. 2025
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“Rationality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rationality. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.
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