rational
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Prosecutors argued that she made rational choices which demonstrated being in control of her actions.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
More complex forms of consciousness, such as emotions and rational thought, piggyback on these primal feelings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Jefferies analyst Brent Thill wrote that another Adobe veteran, David Wadhwani, had been seen as “the rational choice” given that he oversaw about three-quarters of Adobe’s revenue through his position leading the company’s creative business.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
Popular culture often describes that tension as a contest between two parts of the brain: a newer, more advanced center for rational thought and an ancient "lizard brain" that runs on instinct.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
Even the rational numbers—the set of numbers that can be written as a/b for integers a and b—were countable.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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