rational
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Sometimes our rational understanding of life and death bumps into a seemingly impossible presence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026
Yet their actions suggest that the competitive frenzy to secure market share has displaced rational assessment of long-term social benefit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
She plays Elinor, the rational elder sister in Sense and Sensibility, opposite the younger, more romantic sister Marianne.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
If stocks didn’t offer that higher expected return, rational risk-average investors wouldn’t invest in them.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
Studies have shown that racial schemas operate not only as part of conscious, rational deliberations, but also automatically—without conscious awareness or intent.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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