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reason
noun as in mental analysis
Strong matches
- acumen
- apprehension
- argumentation
- bounds
- brain
- brains
- comprehension
- deduction
- dialectics
- discernment
- generalization
- induction
- inference
- intellect
- intellection
- judgment
- limits
- lucidity
- marbles
- mentality
- mind
- moderation
- propriety
- ratiocination
- rationalism
- rationality
- rationalization
- reasonableness
- saneness
- sanity
- senses
- sensibleness
- soundness
- speculation
- understanding
- wisdom
- wit
Weak match
noun as in intention, aim
noun as in explanation for an action
verb as in mentally analyze
Strongest matches
Strong matches
verb as in argue, persuade
Example Sentences
There’s a reason that Benedict Cumberbatch voiced the dragon Smaug in “The Hobbit,” and it’s the same reason Irons voiced Scar in “The Lion King” and George Sanders, BBG emeritus, played Shere Khan in “The Jungle Book.”
This “reconciliation” law greatly restricts the right to publish or speak publicly on the civil war, and is the reason why Daoud’s book has been pr0scribed in his home country and why his French publisher Gallimard was banned from the recent Algiers book fair.
Villa’s defensive record is a reason for optimism.
The reason, he thinks, is because peaches need lower temperatures.
You know, I think these things that come to me, with the work that I’ve put in, come to me for a reason.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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