rationalness

Definition of rationalnessnext

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Noun
  • The real question is whether rationality and humanity are as incompatible as current corporate behavior suggests.
    Alexander Puutio, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
  • To inject greater rationality into the system, a unified budget took effect in 1969.
    Steve H. Hanke, Fortune, 14 May 2026
Noun
  • Such tuning practices also create coherence in head, heart and hara, which brings our whole self into the circle, better able to seed coherence within it.
    Ginny Whitelaw, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
  • Its lack of coherence, however, will not prevent it from causing staggering damage to the US scientific system.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 29 May 2026
Noun
  • While some excel at creative reasoning and coding logic, others may specialize in high-speed data extraction.
    Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 2 June 2026
  • Overseas investment reflects portfolio diversification logic, technology access strategy, and diplomatic influence-building, all of which long predate the current energy crisis induced by Iran’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.
    Alyson Shontell, Fortune, 2 June 2026
Noun
  • Popular models like Claude now show their reasoning before delivering a final answer, letting users watch the model work through a problem step by step.
    Julia Dhar, Fortune, 29 May 2026
  • In regulated and safety-critical industries especially, transparent reasoning is a must.
    Dustin Johnson, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
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
  • In one of its most demanding assignments of recent memory, the San Francisco Opera Chorus led by John Keene embodies one population after another — monkeys, undersea dwellers, gods and heavenly hangers-on — and does it with power and cogency.
    Joshua Kosman, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Nov. 2025
  • TikTok’s algorithm started swamping me with humanities grad students of varying cogency.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 17 Oct. 2025
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“Rationalness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rationalness. Accessed 4 Jun. 2026.

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