rationalize

Example Sentences

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Impulse policies, like impulse buys, can work out well or badly but can never be well rationalized.

From The Wall Street Journal

“I don’t think we can rationalize irrational actions, so I am just trying to make peace with that,” she said.

From Washington Times

“This is a familiar tactic traditionally used to rationalize amending an initiative passed by the people.”

From Seattle Times

Juneteenth is special because the nation is celebrating the end of the shameful hypocrisy of slavery after rationalizing it for centuries.

From Washington Post

At the same time, the book is less interested in explaining or rationalizing that significance than in dramatizing how it literally feels.

From New York Times