rational
Example Sentences
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To him, the ribbed vault and flying buttress were the epitome of rational construction.
“It’s not a black hole,” another kid was explaining, sounding perfectly rational.
From Literature
“We must resolutely prevent drastic market fluctuations and actively guide long-term and rational investment,” Wu Qing, the chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, said in a speech last month.
It suggested the "successive removal" of Marten and Gordon's children "may have reinforced their perception of harm caused by children's social care, making the concealment of Victoria feel subjectively 'rational"'.
From BBC
“What is lost on those who believe Putin crazy,” Mr. Stubb writes, is that “what appears insane through one lens may look rational through another.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
