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Recent Examples of reasonableness
Because those standards focus on reasonableness under the circumstances, an officer can violate departmental policy without necessarily violating the law.
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Stephen Martin, Oklahoma Watch, 5 Mar. 2026
An employer and an employee’s view of reasonableness may differ.
—Dan Eaton, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Feb. 2026
Courts have established a standard referred to as objective reasonableness when considering whether a use of force was justified, relying heavily on the perspective of the specific officer in that specific scenario.
—Claudia Lauer, Fortune, 26 Nov. 2025
Objective reasonableness, meanwhile, asks whether a hypothetical reasonable person would have also used force given the same circumstances.
—Noe Padilla, IndyStar, 6 Nov. 2025
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.
—Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2025
Stephen Martin, Oklahoma Watch, 5 Mar. 2026
An employer and an employee’s view of reasonableness may differ.
—Dan Eaton, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Feb. 2026
Courts have established a standard referred to as objective reasonableness when considering whether a use of force was justified, relying heavily on the perspective of the specific officer in that specific scenario.
—Claudia Lauer, Fortune, 26 Nov. 2025
Objective reasonableness, meanwhile, asks whether a hypothetical reasonable person would have also used force given the same circumstances.
—Noe Padilla, IndyStar, 6 Nov. 2025
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.
—Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for reasonableness
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Stories prey on our emotions, not our rationality, and in many cases, the former takes precedence over the latter.—
Tim Brinkhof,
Big Think,
3 Mar. 2026
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If economic rationality alone served as the driving reason for enclosure, then privatizing wastes, land considered no good for farming, would have made no sense.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 Feb. 2026
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Flying is the company’s second Nova-C lander named Athena featuring NASA’s PRIME-1 drill, to land a drill and mass spectrometer near the south pole of the moon in order to demonstrate the feasibility of in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) and measure the volatile content of subsurface samples.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
4 Mar. 2026
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That raises questions about the feasibility of some alternate routes for oil.—
Camila Domonoske,
NPR,
4 Mar. 2026
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The small, walkable village of Tubac is the ideal destination for a day trip or weekend getaway, one with dozens of unique galleries that embrace a sense of place in the Sonoran Desert.—
Molly Allen,
Travel + Leisure,
8 Mar. 2026
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But there was something profound about the sense of connection and engagement that all kinds of writing gave him.—
Louisa Thomas,
New Yorker,
8 Mar. 2026
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For everyone’s sanity, that fix better be bulletproof.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
5 Mar. 2026
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Cembalest will ultimately be right, and sanity returned, for a bit.—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
1 Mar. 2026
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The cost of inaction could be substantial enough to justify urging candidates to assess their viability before the filing deadline.—
Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Mar. 2026
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In February 2025, the Miami Beach City Commission passed a resolution directing Fernandez to explore the viability of a service center in the city.—
Aaron Leibowitz,
Miami Herald,
5 Mar. 2026
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Feeling unwell and still adjusting to the weekly grind of the ATP Tour, the Irvine native exited in the first round and quickly scratched it from his mind.—
Douglas Robson,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Mar. 2026
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While helping a small business deploy AI tools or securing land for a data center facility might not make for a thrilling Shark Tank pitch, in O’Leary’s mind, both opportunities could make some 25-year-olds very rich.—
Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez,
Fortune,
6 Mar. 2026
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General Daily Insight for March 10, 2026 Small moments quietly point us toward big possibilities.—
Tarot.com,
Hartford Courant,
10 Mar. 2026
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There are still interesting receiving options on the market, but Denver remains bullish on its group and next month’s draft has a strong crop of possibilities, too.—
Parker Gabriel,
Denver Post,
10 Mar. 2026
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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
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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
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“Reasonableness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reasonableness. Accessed 11 Mar. 2026.
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