line of reasoning
Example Sentences
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“For Want of a Horse” inadvertently lends legitimacy to this line of reasoning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2026
That line of reasoning didn’t appear to fully satisfy the court.
From Barron's ● Jan. 21, 2026
This is a completely bogus line of reasoning.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 18, 2025
Instead, according to this line of reasoning, investors should keep one-third of their savings in U.S. stocks and two-thirds in international stocks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
However, any mathematician of the day would have scoffed at this line of reasoning; Archimedes used the tools of the infinite, which were so expressly disallowed by his mathematical colleagues.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
