ratiocination
Example Sentences
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Once again, using the obtuse ratiocination of her characters, DeWitt aims at nothing less than expanding readerly consciousness, gesturing toward a world of untapped possibility freed from convention.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 30, 2022
Certain things that happen before the age of reason exists beyond the reach of ratiocination.
From Slate • Nov. 23, 2011
Hardly anyone writes anymore in the Golden Age vein of Agatha Christie, John Dickson Carr and other proponents of the thinking-machine detective and the sort of plot one could dissect strictly through armchair ratiocination.
From Time Magazine Archive
Redford is an actor who does not find a character through ratiocination or conversation, but rather by getting as quickly as possible into action and seeing where his instincts lead him.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the midst of all the postmortem ratiocination, it is easy to lose sight of the fact that climbing mountains will never be a safe, predictable, rule-bound enterprise.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
Vocabulary lists containing ratiocination
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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Society and Solitude
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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