syllogistic

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Adjective
  • Harbaugh seemed like a logical candidate, but Miami’s hiring of Jon-Eric Sullivan as general manager — and not longtime Harbaugh colleague Chad Alexander — makes that fit less obvious.
    Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Because those employees are in turn often availing themselves of Medi-Cal, Elhawary said, lawmakers see a logical path to taxing their employers in order to support the healthcare system at large.
    Nicole Nixon, Sacbee.com, 8 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • In California and Oregon, the laboratories that typically perform analytical chemistry for wineries were quickly overwhelmed.
    Nicola Twilley, New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Additionally, the analytical assessments performed by the team indicate that the sensitivity of this quantum array approach is higher than classical alternatives.
    Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 2 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • There seemed to be a rational acceptance of the outcome.
    James McNicholas, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2025
  • Therefore, the present work supports the belief that rational materials design at both the macro and atomic levels can solve long-standing challenges, according to a press release.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 8 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • However, Navajo officials have raised concerns that federal agents haven’t consistently recognized these documents as valid and could still detain tribal members.
    Michael Loria, USA Today, 11 Jan. 2026
  • Munoz-Guatemala was also convicted of driving without a valid license and was charged multiple times for driving illegally.
    Rachel Wolf, FOXNews.com, 10 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • The dispute was over timing and risk, not over whether these freedoms were coherent or desirable.
    Philip Martin, Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2026
  • At a time when death metal bands are experimenting with new age and hardcore bands are embracing pop, Agriculture stand out by making their genre agnosticism feel proudly coherent, like these sounds were always meant to coexist.
    Sam Sodomsky, Pitchfork, 7 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • This sort of a priori justification for ESAs explains a few things.
    Chandler Fritz, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
  • These new loops manufacture demand, legitimacy, and cultural weight—not because of what the content says, but because of how it was engineered a priori.
    Emil Steiner, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Assorted arguments, testimony and empirical evidence regarding Title IX haven’t been scrutinized and arguably fall outside the scope of the litigation.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 5 Jan. 2026
  • As my colleague Rogé Karma explained last year, however, essentially the entire weight of empirical economic evidence suggests that this theory has never been true in practice.
    Gilad Edelman, The Atlantic, 5 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • That said, reasonable preparation can help even those familiar with international payment systems avoid high fees, long waits and general confusion.
    Jason Phillips, Kansas City Star, 6 Jan. 2026
  • That’s understandable and reasonable, and fans have every right to express their fandom through frustration when teams don’t live up to expectations.
    Paul Dehner Jr, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2026
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“Syllogistic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/syllogistic. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.

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