reason

But an even bigger reason is that we continue to know relatively little about its origin.

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026

Experts said the softening labour market was another reason the Bank of England was likely to hold interest rates.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

Davidson analyst Gil Luria recently pointed out a related reason why he thinks Microsoft is set to win.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026

He’s having a fraught phone conversation with his mother, who’s upset to learn that the reason his boyfriend can’t pick him up is that they’ve broken up.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

He didn’t tell her the real reason, which was that he hated caves.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

Jonathan Gienapp, Stanford associate professor of history and law, stressed there are reasons for education beyond making money.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

Tracing its source poses particular difficulties for two reasons: an incubation period of up to two weeks before symptoms first appear, and lack of a genetic fingerprint, unlike, say, E. coli.

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026

Credit-card companies have the right to curtail your credit limit for reasons that have nothing to do with you.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026

Even those on Medicare can face sizable out-of-pocket health costs for several reasons:

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026

They chatter about which part of town they’ve come from and the personal reasons that brought them here.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

The court reasoned that the Federal Trade Commission, not the horse-racing authority, has “final say over” rule-making and enforcement.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

He reasoned that if the lodge was going to accommodate more than 20 guests, which was the intent, they’d need a massive great room.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 6, 2026

Hugo Boss said it would "thoroughly examine the offer and issue a reasoned statement".

From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026

"Because it's really close to what we see and how we talk, how we interact with people," she reasoned.

From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 2026

She chose the road because of the Dead End sign, which, she reasoned, meant that there wouldn’t be many cars on the road.

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt

Dan Burn: The Newcastle defender's inclusion was the subject of much debate but his performance against Mexico underlined the reasoning.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026

But for complex reasoning tasks like managing AI agents, advanced coding problems and multistep research, frontier models perform better—even if by a small percentage—and that can make all the difference in outpacing the competition.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

All these decades later, I understand the calculus but remain baffled by that reasoning.

From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026

Electronic calculators, for instance, may have helped users solve equations -- but left the method and reasoning process in human hands.

From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026

Evidently there are certain fundamental experiences and modes of reasoning that are universal and can be regarded as valid in any and every human culture.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton