Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rationalizations
Noun
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Gaza showed how power brokers from the White House on down seem eager for pretexts to punish dissent in ways that create a chilling effect, and that the hottest rhetoric from activists can be exactly that pretext.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
11 Feb. 2026 -
Hamas says that Israel is creating pretexts to avoid honoring the agreement.—
Mohammed R. Mhawish,
New Yorker,
29 Dec. 2025
Noun
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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
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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
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While some of the women who came here willingly embraced ISIS ideology and passed it on to their children, many others say they were trafficked or lured to the region through ignorance or under false pretenses.—
Jane Arraf,
NPR,
11 Apr. 2026
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Court records said Dintaman, 47, pleaded guilty last October to one count each of conspiracy to commit false pretenses over $100,000, uttering and publishing, forgery and using a computer to commit a crime.—
Nick Lentz,
CBS News,
5 Apr. 2026
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As robots became more humanlike, participants’ explanations increasingly framed those neutral colors as industrial or practical.—
Deni Ellis Béchard,
Scientific American,
8 Apr. 2026
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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
Noun
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Grove said the agency’s justifications for consolidating offices in Salt Lake City, Utah, don’t make sense.—
Karl Hille,
Baltimore Sun,
9 Apr. 2026
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The numbers and justifications don’t add up.—
Kristen Monsell,
Sun Sentinel,
7 Apr. 2026
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Of all of the arguments against the death penalty, the strongest is that even one conviction of an innocent person is both irreversible and ethically untenable.—
Chris Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Apr. 2026
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But oral arguments are slated for May 13, meaning the appellate court might not rule by the time the law is slated to take effect.—
Jerry Nowicki,
CBS News,
15 Apr. 2026
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Ex-president Bolsonaro has been serving his sentence under house arrest for health reasons since last month, when he was rushed from prison to hospital with bronchopneumonia.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
14 Apr. 2026
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Instead of litigating to protect the right to vote, the division has focused on demanding unprecedented access to state voter rolls for reasons that remain opaque.—
Quinta Jurecic,
The Atlantic,
13 Apr. 2026
Noun
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By the time my story about him was published in the November 2023 issue of Vanity Fair, Aryeh Dodelson, and all of his guises, had disappeared from the face of the earth.—
Nate Freeman,
Vanity Fair,
3 Apr. 2026
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In its many guises, idolatry has survived, despite regular and often cataclysmic proof of its dangers, for centuries and many people will consider a much-larger-than-life golden statue of a president to be perfectly splendid.—
Culture Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Apr. 2026
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“Rationalizations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rationalizations. Accessed 20 Apr. 2026.
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