reason
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Smith gave Johnson a standing ovation, and O’Neal said Johnson was the reason he joined the crew.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
The two issues combined well to give reason to a rebrand.
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026
At the time of her resignation she blamed burnout; she didn’t cite a principled reason until the New Yorker ran a gushing profile in November 2020.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
"If there was a reason to raise interest rates at the last meeting, I think that there's just as compelling of an economic reason to raise interest rates at this meeting."
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026
She nods; what I’ve just said, for whatever reason, comports with what she knows of her son.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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Fast forward 12 months, and Estevao is beginning to attract attention for all the wrong reasons as he struggles to force his way into Xabi Alonso's side.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
There are four reasons investors should start getting concerned about inflation, according to a financial-research and strategy firm, and the end of tariff refunds, in particular, might become a real shock to investors.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026
If you needed any further reasons to be worried about the bubble that has inflated the stock market, look no further.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
The experience is profound for reasons other than pure spatial and tactical wonder.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
Anyway, he carried a pistol in a holster and slept beside a torpedo that, for reasons they could only guess, had its tip painted purple.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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Cybersecurity stocks have been hot this year as investors have reasoned that artificial intelligence will heighten the need for digital protection.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026
If some ancient inks contained lead, he reasoned, that metal might absorb X rays far more strongly than the surrounding carbonized papyrus.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
Planners reasoned it’s better to have cars waiting for a bus to pick up passengers instead of forcing a bus waiting to pull into the No. 2 lane.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
Actually, every two weeks, thanks to a recently approved initiative: “You guys get paid every two weeks by your employer,” he reasoned, “so why shouldn’t your assets pay you every two weeks?”
From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026
At the very least, the justices reasoned, motorists should know they have the right to refuse consent and to leave, if they so choose.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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At the maximum penalty of $5,000 per violation, Meta could have been liable for a penalty of $219.5 billion; the judge, showing compassion, cut that to $25 billion without explaining his reasoning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
Speech reasoning models work directly with audio, not transcripts, so they can pick up tone and pacing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
These expectations are not simply thoughts that can be changed through reasoning.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026
But in July 2023, the federal district court dismissed his complaint, reasoning that Salazar didn’t count as a “consumer” under the statute because he was only subscribed to a newsletter, “not audio visual content.”
From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2026
Skills: Recognizing their own strengths and weaknesses, reflecting and analyzing themselves, awareness of their inner feelings, desires and dreams, evaluating their thinking patterns, reasoning with themselves, understanding their role in relationship to others.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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