reason
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Ahead of the offseason, Getz told Fuller, “There’s no reason we have to be last if we put some focus into it.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
There’s no reason it has to be like that forever.
From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2026
Woody Ye, partner at Junsheng Consulting, told AFP that part of the reason for Manus's fallout was its failure to properly handle its legal issues.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
They’ve often come from people at private companies whose investors were not going to sue them even if they thought they had a good reason.
From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2026
The hope is that opposing military forces will peacefully occupy the area, since there is no reason to fight.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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Sam Bankman-Fried had become the face of crypto for all the wrong reasons.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
Asked about the invitation, Trump told reporters: "We like getting along with everybody. One of the reasons I'm so successful, I get along with everybody."
From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026
The idea of AI has become problematic in a lot of communities, for all sorts of different reasons, and that makes it more than just one company’s problem.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
On Monday, USA Basketball announced that Wilson and Kelsey Plum, who had previously been announced as members of the team, will miss the World Cup for heath reasons.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026
There are typically only two reasons why a female panda would stop the bamboo eat-a-thon: if she were giving birth or tending to her new cub.
From "Camp Panda" by Catherine Thimmesh
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The researchers reasoned that nanoparticles could be separated from the reaction mixture through centrifugation, which could make it easier to recover the DNA afterward.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
Thus, prosecutors reasoned that they could not prove Tilford created the recording and did so without the others’ knowledge.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
I would totally hide Anne Frank, she reasoned.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
The CPS reasoned that because the prosecution did not use them to form its case against Letby, they were not relevant.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
He reasoned that everyone, especially Herbert Haupt, should have a chance to come forward and turn themselves in.
From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple
The neocortex, often associated with higher-level thought, forms the outer layer of the brain and is involved in vision, perception, reasoning, and other complex abilities.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
Faculty members in humanities, social sciences and arts have also weighed in, saying that verbal reasoning and writing skills were lacking too.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
Air France said it "was not a party to the proceedings and has not been informed of the court's reasoning."
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
The fusion of a reasoning model with a capable harness allows the model to connect to real systems, execute code and manage workflows, according to Anthropic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
As it turned out, my reasoning was seriously flawed.
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
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