rationalizing

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The agency describes the move as "a step forward in rationalizing its use and promoting its safe and responsible use."

From Science Daily • Feb. 26, 2026

There is no rationalizing or interpreting to be done.

From Salon • Jun. 7, 2025

As of now, the locals’ best way of rationalizing the “it can’t happen here” fallacy lies in redefining “here”: Santa Monica simply isn’t “here.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 15, 2024

If Musk put a bit more effort into rationalizing his prejudices, he might have gotten off easier.

From Slate • Nov. 17, 2023

This explains how in love, religion, in the moral life, in politics, and elsewhere, belief can withstand the logical assaults of the rationalizing intelligence—its power is found everywhere.

From Essay on the Creative Imagination by Baron, Albert Heyem Nachmen