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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 How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Cassie's mother rationalizes all by seeing her new husband as a tortured genius who is mentally ill but capable of producing incredible beauty. The beauty of the morality of human rights is the way it simplifies and rationalizes the usually messy answer to the question: "Who has rights? While Gonzalez's arid prose may strike some as undernourished, he's wise to be so unsentimental given how his own family rationalizes their cruelty with sensational stories and superstitions. |
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