- present participle of rationalize.
rationalizing
Example Sentences
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It included shrinking state-owned companies; cutting government bureaucracy; creating a private housing market; and rationalizing public finances in a way that allowed Beijing to function as a modern state.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
The agency describes the move as "a step forward in rationalizing its use and promoting its safe and responsible use."
From Science Daily ● Feb. 26, 2026
As of now, the locals’ best way of rationalizing the “it can’t happen here” fallacy lies in redefining “here”: Santa Monica simply isn’t “here.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2024
That promise appeals most strongly to social groups who find themselves “somehow out of sync with the rationalizing present of capitalism,” offering them a fraudulent reactivation of “unfulfilled pasts and unrealized presents.”
From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2024
This shows the vital difference between reasoning and rationalizing, and the relation of each to faith.
From The Church, the Schools and Evolution by J. E. (Judson Eber) Conant
