rationalization

Example Sentences

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This sounds like a standard rationalization made by collectors, as their homes become the stuff of Marie Kondo’s worst nightmares.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

“Marketplace is undergoing a rationalization, addition by subtraction, as we reduce our exposure while the risk pool stabilizes,” Zubretsky said, according to a FactSet transcript.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 23, 2025

It is, in effect, a plan for the rationalization of the American social and political order based on an unwavering faith in modern technology and AI.

From Salon • Apr. 27, 2025

“There is simply no reasonable rationalization for injustice.”

From Seattle Times • Dec. 11, 2023

Thus the growing process of intellectualization and rationalization does not imply a growing understanding of the conditions under which we live.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton