rationalist

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Soprano Sydney Mancasola brought spice to Lisa, Elvino’s irritable ex-girlfriend, and bass Alexander Vinogradov was persuasive as the suspect outsider and rationalist.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 8, 2025

A well-known rationalist, Narlikar also took it upon himself to challenge pseudoscience.

From BBC • May 23, 2025

His father had been dead for eight years — and he’d been a scientist and a rationalist — but there he was, trying to comfort his son.

From New York Times • May 21, 2024

Intriguingly, a few informal but large surveys from the rationalist community suggest that both complete monogamy and complete polyamory tend to be more satisfying than the “monogamish” middle ground.

From Slate • May 5, 2024

But then it was José Arcadio Buendía who took the lead and tried to break down the priest's faith with rationalist tricks.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez