ratiocination
Example Sentences
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Once again, using the obtuse ratiocination of her characters, DeWitt aims at nothing less than expanding readerly consciousness, gesturing toward a world of untapped possibility freed from convention.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 30, 2022
Certain things that happen before the age of reason exists beyond the reach of ratiocination.
From Slate • Nov. 23, 2011
Poussin's pictorial thought -- for he was, supremely, a thinking painter, to whom ratiocination was the very breath of creativity -- was formed by two powerful influences.
From Time Magazine Archive
It may be that Charles is so hooked on ratiocination because he is so bad at acting.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mr. Sharpe addressed him directly, asking if the boy were capable yet of ratiocination, or was become dumb.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
Vocabulary lists containing ratiocination
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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Society and Solitude
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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