reason out
Example Sentences
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Roger Borelli, who lives two doors down from Mammone’s South Laguna home, was trying — and failing — to reason out what could have prompted someone to attack the doctor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2023
Segall subscribes to legal realism, which rejects the notion that courts apply pure logic, free of prejudices, to reason out every legal dispute.
From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2022
And for some reason out of this Upper West Side Jew comes all of this music to these hymn lyrics.
From New York Times ● May 25, 2021
“It’s hard to make any rhyme or reason out of the victims,” McCaul said.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 21, 2018
He tried to reason out why The Twins should wish to take possession of his property when there was so much unclaimed land lying all around on that side of the river.
From If Any Man Sin by H. A. (Hiram Alfred) Cody
