rationale
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Instead, they strengthen the rationale for studying whether restoring melatonin signaling could help reduce some of the biological effects of long-term night work.
From Science Daily • May 30, 2026
Part of the rationale to legalize sports gambling was that professional athletes make so much money that they wouldn’t be tempted by bribes.
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026
Publicly, though, Biden’s principal stated rationale for moving the state up was to increase racial diversity in the earliest voting states and reward Black voters for their significance in the Democratic Party coalition.
From Slate • May 26, 2026
The rationale is that we are heading into the summer when these bills are lower and instead the focus is on contingency planning for the winter.
From BBC • May 21, 2026
As a form of protest, they did not have a high success rate and the rationale behind them always struck me as quixotic.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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