reasonableness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reasonableness
Noun
  • His decision to side with keeping the government open at the expense of legislative branch power came from a place of rationality, not rashness.
    Philip Elliott, TIME, 14 Mar. 2025
  • And one benefit of a plot built on relentlessly surreal happenstance is that eventually every new plot development starts to feel like a twist — because nothing is predetermined, and rationality and rigor have already gone out the window.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • His sharp sense of storytelling and visionary approach to content has consistently set him apart as a true leader.
    Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 10 Apr. 2025
  • That has always been part of the Trumpist package of maybe not ideas in the sense of grand philosophies but certainly cultural ideas.
    Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • In the process, Hamlet's drives his past lover, Ophelia, to the brink of sanity.
    Audrey Gibbs, USA Today, 8 Apr. 2025
  • So how in the name of sanity did Rosary end up winning the championship by knocking off Orange Lutheran in the final?
    Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Passing on costs to the consumer can happen over time, but not overnight, explained Lamothe, who said she’s already been on the phone with her lawyer about assessing the go-forward viability of the company.
    Alex Sherman, CNBC, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Singer, the contractor, and others said current price hikes do not threaten the viability of rebuilding Los Angeles County homes damaged by the wildfires.
    Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Price upon publish date of this article: $780 What to Look for in a Crossbody Phone Bag Special features: When shopping for a crossbody phone bag, there are a few key features to keep in mind.
    Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 10 Apr. 2025
  • The more Tropper thought about it, the more one actor appeared in his mind for Coop: Jon Hamm.
    Antonia Blyth, Deadline, 10 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Its landscapes don’t offer guarantees, but rather the tantalizing tease of possibility.
    Chris Schalkx, Travel + Leisure, 16 Mar. 2025
  • There is hope of working with his camp to find a new club — a move to a league like Saudi Arabia’s is not the only option and finding a team in Europe could be a possibility.
    Jordan Campbell, The Athletic, 16 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • In a striking parallel to the 1990s, epochal thinking about the potentialities of a high technology society has once again upended politics.
    Jacob Bruggeman & Casey Eilbert / Made by History, TIME, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Practically, then, the translator reads with an eye to understanding the affordances offered by a text—to re-creating its potentialities, rather than merely offering a lexical equivalent.
    Max Norman, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Every scene is a test — of belief, plausibility, modern faithlessness.
    Armond White, National Review, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Yet the balance Dead to Me struck was fragile; if the plot could get cartoonish, then the connection between the two leads, Cardellini and Christina Applegate, and the plausibility of their characters’ bond helped suspend disbelief.
    Judy Berman, TIME, 12 Dec. 2024
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“Reasonableness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reasonableness. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.

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