reason
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It’s the leading reason, at least stated, for job cuts.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026
Catherine said she had no reason to disbelieve him.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
“The Lord of the Rings” fans have reason to celebrate with the release of “The Rings of Power” Season 3 trailer: “One Ring to rule them all” is upon us.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
The policy environment is another reason the premium could widen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
Maggie picked up her phone and scrolled through the pictures she had just taken of E. That was the reason she was late.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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SpaceX’s ability to achieve its computing-power goals — or even get close to them — matters to investors for a number of reasons.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026
One of the biggest reasons Perseverance has been able to travel so far is its sophisticated autonomous driving system.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026
They have their reasons, at least those participants deemed interesting enough to focus on — a challenge, an adventure, something to prove.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
But ahead of the vote, Kesic lost his television platform when his channel dropped his show, citing "commercial reasons".
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026
For reasons she didn’t fully understand, Sara believed him.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
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It is much easier to try to shut people down by calling them names than to make reasoned arguments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 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
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
Actually, every two weeks, thanks to a recently approved initiative: “You guys get paid every two weeks by your employer,” he reasoned, “so why shouldn’t your assets pay you every two weeks?”
From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026
The genes altered in these mutants, Nüsslein-Volhard and Wieschaus reasoned, determine the basic architectural plan of the embryo.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Part of her reasoning is due to her hero, former Apple CEO Steve Jobs, although she points out that Jobs wore blue jeans.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 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
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 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
Blackberry’s reasoning had been first-rate and Bigwig had at least shown which way any sound-hearted rabbit would be likely to lean.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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