rational

Example Sentences

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“Even though in a rational world you should look at your total budget, when one of those buckets starts exceeding, you feel emotionally and psychologically stressed.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

Nations that believe they can outcompete anyone, anywhere embrace open markets as a matter of rational self-interest.

From Barron's • Mar. 20, 2026

That may be rational behavior at the household level.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 18, 2026

His most influential work, The Theory of Communicative Action, published in 1981, argued that human societies were sustained not by political or economic power but by the capacity for rational dialogue.

From BBC • Mar. 14, 2026

This translation is even more rational than the traditional one.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife