reason about

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Approaches such as retrieval augmented generation, or RAG, can tap relevant organizational data, but can’t reason about the way that data connects, according to Graphon.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

"We are scaring a bunch of people for no reason about things they did in the past and we're generating more anxiety in an already very anxious population," she said.

From BBC • Sep. 24, 2025

Yet for some reason, about 20% of patients with painful, visibly swollen joints consistently get no relief from multiple rounds of even the strongest of these anti-inflammatory drugs.

From Science Daily • Apr. 11, 2024

Though the new bot seemed to reason about things that have already happened, it was less adept when asked to form hypotheses about the future.

From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2023

I didn’t understand how that could be, unless he was lying for some reason about the contacts.

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer