reason
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These findings are one reason sleep researchers are paying less attention to sleep duration alone.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
We have seen several LGBTQ+ staple venues have their Meta accounts restricted, blocked, and taken down — with no clear reason why.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
It cites the treatment of operating leases between the quarterly update and annual fiscal result as the reason.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
And, after digging through layers of internet ugliness, I found the last thing I expected: a reason to believe we might just make it out of our current mess.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
Balancing the sanguine, or blood, humor was the "reason" for bleeding the sick.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau says there are myriad reasons people are either refused a credit card or, just as much a slap in the face with a wet fish, a low credit limit.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
Heller said it’s best for homeowners to consult a licensed roofer for safety reasons.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
Instead, McKinsey’s review found the most common reasons for dividend cuts were the less-flattering ones.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
"We have really no interest in trying to be in the way of anyone else, and that's one of the main reasons it's a smaller space."
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
"You have reasons for what you say, I know. But not all share your views."
From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda
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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
Sher reasoned that Mountjoy had to make up his mind — stay in the Assembly or move to the Senate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
The researchers reasoned that nanoparticles could be separated from the reaction mixture through centrifugation, which could make it easier to recover the DNA afterward.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
"It is possible to say that more could have been done, but there was a serious risk of financial meltdown," Tombs reasoned.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
The gene—the fundamental unit of heredity—must also be made of subunits, he reasoned, and the structure of DNA should illuminate these subunits.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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The military’s reasoning was that leaking some of the information about these interplanetary conflicts might reduce the shock to the public the day the real revelations came.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
The forebrain supports many of the abilities people most closely associate with complex thought, including language, consciousness and abstract reasoning.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026
Shaw attended Tuesday’s hearing and criticized Sachs’ reasoning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
In the “chain-of-thought” files they created to illustrate their reasoning, they wrote very human-like messages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
But similar reasoning also applies to the diffusion of technological innovations, insofar as they are best suited without modification to specific environments.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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