rational

Example Sentences

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“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.

From The Wall Street Journal

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 The Wall Street Journal

Now, the convicted killer argues that his "torturous and inhumane" detention conditions during his trial made him incapable of making rational decisions when he pleaded guilty, according to a court synopsis of the case.

From Barron's

“A rational market would price that. Unfortunately, we’re not in a rational market.”

From MarketWatch