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The Man Leaving Town sounded quite rational about the absurdities of his profession.

The price war has drawn the ire of Beijing, with China’s top market regulator earlier this year calling for the companies to engage in “rational” competition.

For some, withdrawing into a small personal space and lowering expectations seems like a rational, even self-protective, response.

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The sculptures lovingly sanctify a keystone’s rational but enigmatic contradiction of mechanics and function.

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Blanc will reveal the truth, proclaiming his choice to “kneel at the altar of the rational.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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