rationalness

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for rationalness
Noun
  • Saul posited that technocratic elites had fetishized the Enlightenment ideal of rationality to the point of extremism.
    Jennifer Szalai, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Of course, rationality is often in short supply when discussing money and mortality.
    Ashley Case, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Political leaders now face a choice: lead with technical clarity and policy coherence or tinker at the political edges.
    María Mendiluce, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
  • Our expectations about what can be treated lightly no less than our expectations of dramatic coherence have changed a lot since then, let alone since 1953.
    Jesse Green, New York Times, 2 May 2025
Noun
  • This is the same poison used by Trump to attack immigrants, and its logic is war and the sacrifice of workers and their children for the interests of the rich.
    Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 May 2025
  • But with recent improvements, the finish line is in sight: New reasoning models greatly outperform earlier versions in logic, accuracy and abstraction tasks.
    Robert Pearl, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025
Noun
  • Clyde cited taxes on firearm purchases as part of his reasoning.
    Annabella Rosciglione, The Washington Examiner, 16 May 2025
  • This notice must include the employer’s specific reasoning for the decision and documentation of the individualized assessment that led to it.
    Alonzo Martinez, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
Noun
  • 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, WIRED, 23 Feb. 2023
Noun
  • Masterpiece remakes offer something very different, speaking to us with surprising urgency and cogency across time.
    Jim Shepard, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2025
  • The play echoes this ever-important sentiment but with far less cogency on an American stage.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2024
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“Rationalness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rationalness. Accessed 22 May. 2025.

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