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rationalize verb account for, adduce, analyze, construe, excogitate, excuse, explain, explain away, make acceptable, make allowances, make excuses, reconcile, reflect, theorize, think, think logically, vindicate

See also: comment, conclude, deduce, deduct, ponder, reason

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account for adduce analyze cogitate comment construe deduce dialectic excogitate excuse explain Insanity Defense Judicial Administration justify make acceptable make allowances make excuses on the grounds ponder			Byline: ARTHUR MACDONALD MANAMA: Global economic recovery will be flat and will take at least another 18 months to work its way through lay-offs, write downs and rationalisations. Global economic growth to remain flat says bank by Gulf Daily News (Manama, Bahrain) However, we believe that the recovery will be flat-to-w-shaped and will take at least another 18 months to work its way through lay-offs, write downs and rationalisations. Economic upturn will take over 1 year: bank by TradeArabia (Manama, Bahrain) Organisational forms may provide rationalisations before and after, but these can be more deceptive and destabilising than emotions, and thus the notion of 'rational choice' and 'irrational anomalies' are both implausible bases for facing uncertainty (Pixley 2004, 2009). 'The current crisis of capitalism': what sort of crisis? by Pixley, Jocelyn / Economic and Labour Relations Review			rating ratio ratio decidendi Ratio est formalis causa consueetudinis Ratio est legis anima Ratio est radius divini luminis Ratio et auctoritas duo clarisima mundi limina Ratio in jure aequitas integra ratio iudiciorum Ratio legis est anima legis Ratio non clauditur loco Ratio potest allegari deficiente lege ratiocinari ratiocinate ratiocinatio ratiocination ratiocinative ratiocinatory ration rational rational basis Rational Basis Test rational faculty rationale Rationalibus divisis rationalisations rationalism rationalistic rationality rationalization rationalize rationalizing rationcinate ratione praeditus rationem inire rationem rei rationes dispungere rationi consentaneus rationing rationis expers rationis particeps rattle rattle the saber ratum facere ravage ravagement ravager ravaging rave against ravel raveled			Rational Unified Process Rational Unified Process Product Rational Use of Drugs Rational Use of Energy Rational Use of Medicines Rational Valuation Formula Rational zeroes test Rational, Robust, and Secure Negotiations in Multi-Agent Systems rational-harmonic mode locking Rational-legal authority rationale rationale rationale rationale Rationale (vestment) Rationale (vestment) Rationale (vestment) Rationale Drug Design Approach Rationale, Objectives, Appraisal, Monitoring, Evaluation Rationale, Objectives, Appraisal, Monitoring, Evaluation and Feedback rationales rationales rationales rationales Rationalibus divisis rationalisation rationalisation rationalisation rationalisation rationalisation rationalisations rationalise rationalise rationalise rationalise rationalise rationalise away rationalised rationalised rationalised rationalised rationaliser rationaliser rationaliser rationaliser rationalisers rationalisers rationalisers rationalisers rationalises rationalises rationalises rationalises rationalising rationalising rationalising rationalising rationalism rationalism rationalism Rationalism (philosophy)

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