reason
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It removed every reason an owner has to pay one.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
She says one reason is that many girls in poor and rural areas cannot afford menstrual sanitary products.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
My own issues with mortality and time must be a big reason why I like to work on these documentaries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
Criminals know people have financial problems, and that helps explain why the No. 1 reason for robocall scams is related to debt relief/loan assistance.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
Whatever the reason, Phineas turns his head to glance over his right shoulder.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
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Sonny and Mallory shared a kiss once, on a class camping trip, but for … reasons, they meet again on tentative terms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
There are good reasons for specialized review systems.
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026
One of the reasons that we’re talking today is The Book of Menopause.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
The other three companies are projected to be big contributors for quirkier reasons, the FactSet report noted.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 18, 2026
One of the reasons Wall Street had cooked up this new industry called structured finance was that its old-fashioned business was every day less profitable.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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With the 19 addresses of “So Ordered”—each adapted as a tightly reasoned essay—Justice Alito affords the legal commentariat an unexacting way to understand his thought.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
Amazon also could offset pressure on the advertising segment through other areas of the business, he reasoned, noting that any pressure would likely amount to a small fraction of overall revenue.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
Planners reasoned it’s better to have cars waiting for a bus to pick up passengers instead of forcing a bus waiting to pull into the No. 2 lane.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
If a magnetic field was present, Weiss and his colleagues reasoned, it should have left a lasting imprint on some of the material forming within the disk.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 2026
Since twins share identical genetic material, he reasoned, any substantial similarities between them could be attributed to genes, while any differences were the consequence of environment.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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But in July 2023, the federal district court dismissed his complaint, reasoning that Salazar didn’t count as a “consumer” under the statute because he was only subscribed to a newsletter, “not audio visual content.”
From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2026
The self-declared modern-day Miss Marple warned Kenny to be on the lookout for anyone acting differently, reasoning that "if you're suddenly a traitor, you're going to be a bit on high alert".
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
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
Aunt Fannie looked particularly proud of her reasoning.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
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