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We have reason to believe these kinds of viruses spread better when it’s cold.

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Today, Feynman’s “dippy process” has become as ubiquitous in physics as calculus, and its mechanics reveal the reasons for some of the discipline’s greatest successes and its current challenges.

There are a number of reasons why a particular virus might be more active during certain times of year.

Comparing these results with 2016 exit polling is tricky for a few reasons.

One of the reasons for this behavior is that consumers who would ordinarily visit stores are buying online to avoid potential exposure to the virus.

When twelve people are killed by violence, whoever they are, for whatever reason, that is a tragedy and a waste.

The research literature, too, asks these questions, and not without reason.

The reason we were liberals is we were against oppression.

There is a larger reason, beyond the airlines themselves, why Lion Air and 61 other Indonesian airlines are on this black list.

Yet, for god knows what reason, his name is never brought up in the “Great American Filmmaker” conversation.

To Americans Mrs. Wright is interesting by reason of her patriotism, which amounted to a passion.

Wordsworth has illustrated how an unwise and importunate demand for a reason from a child may drive him into invention.

And she fell to scolding him in the way he usually loved,—but at the moment found less stimulating for some reason.

The reason we associate rhythm with the significance of time is that rhythm is a measurer of time.

That she had her definite reason he knew, as a woman knows when another woman is wearing a last year's gown.

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On this page you'll find 285 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to reason, such as: logic, reasoning, sense, acumen, apprehension, and argumentation.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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