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as in rationality
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as in feasibility
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reasonableness
Noun
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But Sheinbaum seemed determined to give at least the appearance of rationality.—
Stephania Taladrid,
New Yorker,
21 Apr. 2025 -
His decision to side with keeping the government open at the expense of legislative branch power came from a place of rationality, not rashness.—
Philip Elliott,
TIME,
14 Mar. 2025
Noun
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In a sense, this ichor functioned like a power source or electricity, circulating through the robot’s bronze limbs and fueling his movements and actions.—
Sofia Giannuzzi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
22 Apr. 2025
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Colts’ draft analysis • Mock draft analysis: Does TE still make the most sense in Round1?—
James Boyd,
New York Times,
22 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Thomas pleads for his sanity in his paranoid whispers, his voice twisting and flopping like a fish on a line.—
Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
25 Apr. 2025
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Your business will reach new levels of excellence while protecting your team and your sanity.—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes.com,
14 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Its decision to push forward with these plans showcases AM’s confidence in the long-term viability of its expansion strategy, regardless of looming tariffs.—
Andre Claudio,
Sourcing Journal,
29 Apr. 2025
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So, how might a 0-person startup achieve viability?—
Marc Schröder,
Forbes.com,
28 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Trust in Trump’s economy slips, new poll finds Many Americans voted with their wallets front of mind during the 2024 presidential election.—
Rebecca Morin,
USA Today,
24 Apr. 2025
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Concerns about such performance reviews were also top of mind at the conference.—
Jeanne Meister,
Forbes.com,
23 Apr. 2025
Noun
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At a meeting last week, the board discussed the possibility of raising fares for the first time in about five years.—
Phil Diehl,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 Apr. 2025
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Today, great-power rivalry is back, and systemic war is a very real possibility.—
A. Wess Mitchell,
Foreign Affairs,
22 Apr. 2025
Noun
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In a striking parallel to the 1990s, epochal thinking about the potentialities of a high technology society has once again upended politics.—
Jacob Bruggeman & Casey Eilbert / Made by History,
TIME,
3 Mar. 2025
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Practically, then, the translator reads with an eye to understanding the affordances offered by a text—to re-creating its potentialities, rather than merely offering a lexical equivalent.—
Max Norman,
The New Yorker,
7 Dec. 2024
Noun
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The task of reading Capital naïvely acquires a fresh jolt of plausibility in the case of Paul Reitter’s new translation of volume one.—
Benjamin Kunkel,
Harpers Magazine,
28 Mar. 2025
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Critically, the survey only offered options that had a base level of plausibility.—
JANINA DILL,
Foreign Affairs,
26 Feb. 2025
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“Reasonableness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reasonableness. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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