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reason

[ree-zuhn] / ˈri zən /








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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

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

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

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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