rationale

“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

Prologis said it sees a clear strategic rationale for a combination and urged Segro shareholders to encourage the board to engage with Prologis and allow them to consider an offer.

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

“Our call for durability before potential recovery was wrong,” Bergin wrote, “and sustaining the positive rating doesn’t have a clear rationale as numbers go the wrong way.”

From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026

As a form of protest, they did not have a high success rate and the rationale behind them always struck me as quixotic.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

Among the chief rationales for the lower tax rate on capital gains is to counter the effect of inflation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 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

He and the Defense Department have put forward a variety of rationales.

From Slate ● Mar. 2, 2026

We have heard the rationales offered by the nuclear superpowers.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan