rationale
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The rationale for moving the voting online is the technical difficulty of requiring fans to vote for multiple acts via text message or phone votes.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
His rationale is simple: He wants employers that provide health insurance to employees and their families to know that care is being denied.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
Altomare said students with private Italian sponsors are also not being evacuated, questioning the rationale for rejecting such applicants.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
As she explained her rationale, Halem, who appeared in court in an orange jumpsuit, sat with his head bowed, eyes downcast.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
She hesitated, conscious that in answering she would be offering a form of defense, a rationale, and that it might enrage him further.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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That will create more costs for borrowers in the form of volatility and risk premiums, as investors guess at policy rationales and how the central bank will respond to recent data.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 10, 2026
“Each change arrives wrapped in a reasonable rationale: fiscal discipline, local control, parental choice. But arrange them in the order a child actually grows, and the rationales stop mattering.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2026
The companies have offered differing rationales for the reductions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
None of these rationales bears any relation to a traditional American national security strategy.
From Salon ● Mar. 14, 2026
We have heard the rationales offered by the nuclear superpowers.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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