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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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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
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The rationality police is back, Tennessee Titans fans.—
Nick Suss,
Nashville Tennessean,
13 Oct. 2025
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Although pilots in France, Italy, and the US have shown strong feasibility, challenges still exist.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Nov. 2025
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Critics raised questions about the feasibility of some of his proposals, including free bus services and city-run grocery stores, as well as about his previous comments on Israel.—
Andrew Stanton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
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Filler shots of chauffeurs, champagne and colossal walk-in closets with pristine designer clobber glistening and gleaming from glass shelves centred around trays and trays of priceless jewels assault the viewer’s senses between almost every scene.—
Alejandra Gularte,
Vulture,
5 Nov. 2025
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For all the fans’ cries for the team to go all in, there’s still the matter of dollars and sense.—
Jeff Zrebiec,
New York Times,
5 Nov. 2025
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In the film, the pair star as young couple Grace and Jackson, who move from New York City to Jackson’s hometown in Montana and become parents, as Grace struggles to maintain her sanity after giving birth.—
Kirsten Chuba,
HollywoodReporter,
2 Nov. 2025
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After touring for 30 years, LeAnn Rimes has learned a thing or two about maintaining her sanity on the road.—
Melinda Newman,
Billboard,
28 Oct. 2025
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Even before Drake filed his defamation lawsuit, many legal experts and industry figures were skeptical of his allegations and their viability in court.—
Nancy Dillon,
Rolling Stone,
3 Nov. 2025
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For further proof of the viability of the company’s approach, one need look no further than notable success stories such as BarBend.—
Maria Williams,
USA Today,
31 Oct. 2025
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Familial pairs choose the experimental merge for a variety of reasons, including a mother with Alzheimer’s linking her mind with her daughter; teenage brothers, one terminally ill; a man and his pregnant fiancée; a father and his addict daughter.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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In Hoyer’s mind, the Tokyo Series represented the culmination of the organization’s long-running efforts to establish connections in Nippon Professional Baseball, highlight the Cubs as a brand overseas and turn Chicago into a destination for Japanese players.—
Patrick Mooney,
New York Times,
2 Nov. 2025
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After Maggie and Paul were shot to death on June 7, 2021, Alex was found guilty of two counts of murder and two counts of possession of a weapon during a violent crime, earning two consecutive life sentences without possibility of parole.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
5 Nov. 2025
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And Mamdani’s promised rent freeze faces multiple hurdles — including the possibility that outgoing Mayor Eric Adams will stack the Rent Guidelines Board with his own appointees who won’t go along with a freeze.—
Sydney Lake,
Fortune,
5 Nov. 2025
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And where there is injustice and frustration, the potentialities for violence are greater.—
NBC news,
NBC news,
12 Oct. 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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“Reasonableness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reasonableness. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.
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