- present participle of reason.
reasoning
Example Sentences
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The chain-of-thought is a written record of an AI system’s reasoning process that AI companies monitor and analyze to understand how models work through problems.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
The reasoning was that if animals had already existed at the time, such an unusually well-preserved fossil deposit should have captured evidence of them.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
On advanced reasoning benchmarks, Beam can achieve comparable scores to GLM-5.2 with three to four times less processing computing, according to Reflection.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
The two movements overlap heavily in membership and ideas, sharing an emphasis on reasoning through evidence and probabilities, and a conviction that preventing human extinction should be a top priority.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
Wotton’s ‘Tacit Reserve’, which is the principle that all scientific reasoning is defeasible, is of fundamental importance.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing reasoning
Argumentative Writing
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