reasonability

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Noun
  • The residents are owed answers, even while understanding the reasonableness of not knowing all of them just yet.
    Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Choosing life over glory is reasonableness in action.
    Nikhil Krishnan, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The program mirrored a similar feasibility-testing venture that began in the 1970s, which was swiftly terminated once oil prices stabilized.
    ABC News, ABC News, 6 May 2026
  • Midway Rising has maintained that the entirety of the project is entitled to a waiver from the 30-foot height limit in the Midway District because the restriction stands in the way of the project’s financial feasibility.
    Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 May 2026
Noun
  • The researchers calculated that 2002 XV93 has an atmosphere about 5 million to 10 million times thinner than Earth’s — and suspect two possibilities as to what created it.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 4 May 2026
  • Tavaris Jackson, 35, of Escanaba, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
    Joseph Buczek, CBS News, 4 May 2026
Noun
  • Chapman spoke to the future work that will be necessary to ensure the long-term viability of the program.
    Jennah Pendleton, Sacbee.com, 8 May 2026
  • Hard tech, such as new battery chemistries or carbon-neutral cement, requires billions of dollars and years of development before reaching commercial viability.
    Imran Khalid, Twin Cities, 7 May 2026
Noun
  • But that potentiality feels nascent in Slater’s current rendering of the part rather than fully acknowledged and explored.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2026
  • The film is set in 2029, a mere three years from now, demonstrating both an optimism about the potentiality of AI and a pessimism about the city’s trajectory.
    Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 21 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The military theory, the Godard film scene, the AAVE connection, the Baker-Burke Dodgers moment and the Louisville basketball story all carry some degree of plausibility.
    Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 27 Apr. 2026
  • This is the plausibility threshold Loftus was pointing out.
    Tim Requarth, Longreads, 9 Apr. 2026
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“Reasonability.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reasonability. Accessed 10 May. 2026.

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