reasoning
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My bargaining with the moral universe is that I still listen to “Off the Wall,” weakly reasoning that it came out before Jackson launched his Peter Pan act.
From Salon • May 14, 2026
The ruling, which is called a stay, issued on Thursday was part of the court's emergency docket and came with no reasoning attached.
From BBC • May 14, 2026
AI systems allow robots to learn from human action and apply reasoning to solve real-world problems.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026
Mariantonietta D'Ambrosio, a postdoctoral researcher at the LMS and lead author of the study published in Nature Cell Biology, explained the reasoning behind the research.
From Science Daily • May 13, 2026
He let his eyes examine each of the remaining starting-point possibilities—top left, bottom left, and bottom right—and then, in a form of backward reasoning, tracked the path from the princess to the knight.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
Vocabulary lists containing reasoning
Argumentative Writing
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TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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The AP English Exam: The Language of the Test
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