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Recent Examples of reasonableness
Perhaps even more unsettling is the larger sense that there are other, unrelated sets of rules hemming us in on all sides, regulating seemingly every aspect of life with varying degrees of reasonableness.
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Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2025
Olson, however, doesn't trust that the law will safeguard consumers, pointing to the vagueness inherent in the law's language charging the commission with evaluating a project’s reasonableness.
—Marissa Meador, IndyStar, 21 Aug. 2025
Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2025
Olson, however, doesn't trust that the law will safeguard consumers, pointing to the vagueness inherent in the law's language charging the commission with evaluating a project’s reasonableness.
—Marissa Meador, IndyStar, 21 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for reasonableness
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As the physician and philosopher Jodi Halpern has pointed out, Osler believed that a doctor should aspire to be an island of calm in stormy seas, mastering her own unruly emotions with the force of rationality.—
Rachel Pearson,
Harpers Magazine,
19 Sep. 2025
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With over 32,000 requests to create new Turning Point chapters around the country, much of the nation has already decided that Charlie Kirk's civility, rationality, and commitment to reason are their values—and American values.—
Newsweek Contributors,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Sep. 2025
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The limits of feasibility remain real.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
24 Sep. 2025
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Questions of budget feasibility also loomed large.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
24 Sep. 2025
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Infused with the brand’s signature scent—a warm, sophisticated blend of amber, musk, and florals—this shampoo not only cleanses but also pampers the senses.—
Jenny Berg,
Vogue,
24 Sep. 2025
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One week out from their first playoff game, the Chicago Cubs still do not have a solid timeline for All-Star outfielder Kyle Tucker, who has been sidelined nearly all of September with a left calf injury, adding to the club’s sense of urgency.—
Patrick Mooney,
New York Times,
24 Sep. 2025
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After being wrongfully imprisoned in a mental asylum, an author is faced with a decision to surrender to insanity or fight for her sanity.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
23 Sep. 2025
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The game also has a new-to-the-series sanity meter, which drains when Hinako uses focus attacks that slow down combat to give Hinako an edge.—
Zackery Cuevas,
PC Magazine,
23 Sep. 2025
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Einstein’s brain was preserved using mid-20th-century methods, long before advances in genetic storage, making its viability uncertain.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
22 Sep. 2025
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Kenya’s president was brought in, addressing the concern of the project’s political viability and ostensibly helping to cut through what would otherwise have been huge amounts of red tape.—
Alexis Akwagyiram,
semafor.com,
22 Sep. 2025
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Your mind tells you one thing while your intuition says another.—
USA TODAY,
USA Today,
29 Sep. 2025
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Golf talk was top of mind as guests shared their photos from the tournament and made plans to hit the West Side driving course early the next morning, before catching a helicopter out to the final.—
Kristen Tauer,
Footwear News,
28 Sep. 2025
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One possibility would be a DART-like mission designed not to deflect but to fragment the object.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
25 Sep. 2025
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Shipley also cast doubt on the possibility that Homan could face any conspiracy charges.—
Kaelan Deese,
The Washington Examiner,
24 Sep. 2025
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On foot, there are no boundaries in the land, no divides, nothing but the past and the potentiality of the future.—
Michael McColly,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Aug. 2025
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Each of these sentiments points to the rich, fertile space that exists at the margins—of the body, of language, of the photograph—while also emphasizing the creative potentialities of touch, the action that propels these often porous edges to meet.—
Jessica Simmons-Reid,
Artforum,
1 June 2025
Cite this Entry
“Reasonableness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reasonableness. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.
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