reasonability

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Noun
  • In March, a California Judge will decide whether to commute the brothers sentences' of life in prison without the possibility of parole, potentially paving the way for their release.
    Karissa Waddick, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2025
  • The damage to his lungs was already chronic, and in recent days a few cardinals have openly spoken about the possibility of Francis resigning, as his predecessor Benedict XVI did in 2013.
    Elisabetta Povoledo, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • With the backing of research foundations as well as major global institutions, Acumen’s initiative will shed light on the importance of sustainable global trade; not in the environmental sense, but rather with a focus on long-term economic viability.
    Jason Phillips, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2025
  • When properly stored, most seeds last for years but some lose their viability within a couple of years.
    Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Whatever happens, clearly there is an urgent need for the U.S. government to address such potentialities.
    Barbara A. Perry, Newsweek, 28 Jan. 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
  • The Van Buren Institute then just takes leave of historical plausibility as a product of the 1940s.
    Anthony Paletta, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 7 Feb. 2025
  • The events — which the film all but skips through, lest the viewer start to question its plausibility — turn the tables such that Oliver becomes beholden to Matthew’s whims, rather than vice versa.
    Natalia Winkelman, IndieWire, 28 Jan. 2025
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“Reasonability.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reasonability. Accessed 2 Mar. 2025.

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