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Berlin aims to rationalize burdensome data-protection regulations, freeing small businesses from the costliest strictures.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

“In all of the history of money bail there has never been an attempt to rationalize the money amounts. The money amounts of the bonds are literally picked out of the air.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026

"Our findings allowed us to rationalize the critical role of engineering the hydrogen-bond network at the catalyst/electrolyte interface in designing high-efficiency, low-cost AEMWEs," Wu said.

From Science Daily ● May 18, 2026

“We will absolutely have to rationalize the overall corporate overhead of the company,” Ellison said after being asked about the possibility of layoffs.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 7, 2026

Rather it seems that an aspect of human nature is the tendency to cling tightly to one’s advantages and privileges and to rationalize the suffering and exclusion of others.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

Kane, who declined to disclose his average earnings, rationalizes that big losses are just part of the job.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 9, 2026

“To sing with the gods, you sometimes need a ladder,” Houston rationalizes in the movie.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 22, 2022

In a note to employees, Mr. Iger said a new company structure was on the way that “puts more decision-making back in the hands of our creative teams and rationalizes costs.”

From New York Times ● Nov. 21, 2022

"If we want to get his attention," one of the chairs of the planning committee rationalizes, "we have to think like him. Act . . . like him."

From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2022

It annoys my father no end, but he rationalizes it by saying, “We live in a service economy. We all have to feed it somehow.”

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

“As flows started to reverse and markets rationalized, those spectacular numbers fell into more modest territory. Then the 2022 bear market hit,” Bespoke added, noting that many investors were now stuck with “deeply underwater positions.”

From Barron's ● Jan. 30, 2026

Impulse policies, like impulse buys, can work out well or badly but can never be well rationalized.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 24, 2025

“We rationalized that if this area were to burn, the whole town would burn,” he said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2025

On Thursday, the State Department announced it would review the legal status of immigrants who praised, rationalized or made light of Kirk’s death.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2025

“But then,” he rationalized, “if I did that, all the other would expect to get ’em handed to ’em.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

“We’ve probably done more rationalizing the supply chain, for example shutting down plants rather than investing in creating a new manufacturing footprint,” McNamara said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026

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

Far too many people, who also depended on the accused for their livelihoods, ignored complaints and obvious signs of distress or simply looked the other way, rationalizing the incidents as the cost of doing business.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2025

Hypocrisies are lighter or more grave in the measure of the confirmation against God and of the outward rationalizing in favor of God.

From Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence by William F. Wunsch