rationalness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rationalness
Noun
  • Lyra’s quest to understand Dust brings her into confrontation with human and other worldly forces who champion moral absolutism over imagination, ignorance over knowledge, authoritarianism over free will and cold, disinterested rationality over empathy.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The rationality police is back, Tennessee Titans fans.
    Nick Suss, Nashville Tennessean, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Quantum coherence times With Zhong’s approach, that same UChicago quantum computer that previously couldn’t reach the Willis Tower could now connect and communicate with a quantum computer outside of Salt Lake City, Utah.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 7 Nov. 2025
  • But any actual emotional resonance or narrative coherence that All’s Fair manages along the way is purely incidental.
    Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 4 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • In the more technical areas of philosophy — logic, especially — there’s enough agreement about what are the core ideas students should know that instruction does largely proceed via textbook.
    Big Think, Big Think, 6 Nov. 2025
  • All those financial resources enhance the logic behind expensive projects like desalinating seawater and transporting it, desalinating local brackish groundwater or acquiring surplus water from some limited areas in California.
    Austin Corona, AZCentral.com, 6 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Yet correct answers on benchmarks like GSM8K do not necessarily mean the model is actually engaging in mathematical reasoning, study author Mahdi said.
    Jared Perlo, NBC news, 6 Nov. 2025
  • With this reasoning, the Court ruled against Scott and legalized slavery in the territories by overturning the Missouri Compromise.
    Equal Justice Initiative, USA Today, 6 Nov. 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
  • TikTok’s algorithm started swamping me with humanities grad students of varying cogency.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Masterpiece remakes offer something very different, speaking to us with surprising urgency and cogency across time.
    Jim Shepard, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2025
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“Rationalness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rationalness. Accessed 12 Nov. 2025.

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