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While Thursday’s decision dealt with Haitians and Syrians, its rationale could affect up to 1.3 million noncitizens who are protected by Temporary Protected Status.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026

“There was a reasonable rationale supporting it,” Mr. Meese says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

In Taipei, security officials have rejected Beijing’s rationale for the inspections, saying that the talks between Tokyo and Manila don’t affect Taiwan’s separate arrangements with each of those nations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026

Which rather diminishes the headline, the lede, and the whole rationale for putting the story on the front page.

From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2026

I had no particular rationale for wanting this.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

That will create more costs for borrowers in the form of volatility and risk premiums, as investors guess at policy rationales and how the central bank will respond to recent data.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 10, 2026

“Each change arrives wrapped in a reasonable rationale: fiscal discipline, local control, parental choice. But arrange them in the order a child actually grows, and the rationales stop mattering.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2026

None of these rationales bears any relation to a traditional American national security strategy.

From Salon ● Mar. 14, 2026

The evolving rationales have exposed the contrast between the monthslong planning that went into the initial military assault and what one senior administration official characterized as minimal conversation about who would take over the country.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 7, 2026

We have heard the rationales offered by the nuclear superpowers.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan