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Recent Examples of rationality
In recent years, both neuroscience and transformative leadership theory have increasingly recognized the importance of emotions and feelings alongside rationality.
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Nancy Zamierowski, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2025
Catholicism offers ritual without the tedium of rationality; anarchism offers revolutionary action against inequality without the taint of materialism, the prospect of personal gain.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
Before compassion and empathy, he was trained, taught, and raised to live in a world of pragmatism and rationality over emotion.
—Chris Gallagher, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2025
The cultivation of rationality and compassion can go a long way toward remedying and even precluding various human behaviors and societal ills without the superfluous discord that moral judgments and attitudes so often introduce.
—The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
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Nancy Zamierowski, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2025
Catholicism offers ritual without the tedium of rationality; anarchism offers revolutionary action against inequality without the taint of materialism, the prospect of personal gain.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
Before compassion and empathy, he was trained, taught, and raised to live in a world of pragmatism and rationality over emotion.
—Chris Gallagher, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2025
The cultivation of rationality and compassion can go a long way toward remedying and even precluding various human behaviors and societal ills without the superfluous discord that moral judgments and attitudes so often introduce.
—The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rationality
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In this sense, Biden’s brand of post-neoliberalism fed the body but not the soul.—
Jennifer M. Harris,
Foreign Affairs,
22 Apr. 2025
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In a sense, this ichor functioned like a power source or electricity, circulating through the robot’s bronze limbs and fueling his movements and actions.—
Sofia Giannuzzi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
22 Apr. 2025
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Thomas pleads for his sanity in his paranoid whispers, his voice twisting and flopping like a fish on a line.—
Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
25 Apr. 2025
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Your business will reach new levels of excellence while protecting your team and your sanity.—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes.com,
14 Apr. 2025
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Trust in Trump’s economy slips, new poll finds Many Americans voted with their wallets front of mind during the 2024 presidential election.—
Rebecca Morin,
USA Today,
24 Apr. 2025
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The real culprit, in the West Wing’s mind, remains Powell.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
23 Apr. 2025
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The reason for the independence, the Brookings Institution explains, is that politicians tend to want lower interest rates because lower rates stimulate the economy.—
Daniel de Visé,
USA Today,
21 Apr. 2025
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The reason for the increase in the Tigers’ team score came after a review of Mizzou’s third rotation — balance beam.—
Henry Chappell,
Kansas City Star,
20 Apr. 2025
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“Rationality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rationality. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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