reason out
Example Sentences
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Roger Borelli, who lives two doors down from Mammone’s South Laguna home, was trying — and failing — to reason out what could have prompted someone to attack the doctor.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2023
Segall subscribes to legal realism, which rejects the notion that courts apply pure logic, free of prejudices, to reason out every legal dispute.
From Slate • Oct. 2, 2022
And for some reason out of this Upper West Side Jew comes all of this music to these hymn lyrics.
From New York Times • May 25, 2021
“It’s hard to make any rhyme or reason out of the victims,” McCaul said.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 21, 2018
I know it—at least, I mean—er—anybody can reason out the matter for themselves.”
From The Sirdar's Oath A Tale of the North-West Frontier by Mitford, Bertram