Word Finder - reason

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A cause:

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Rational thinking (or the capacity for it); the cognitive faculties, collectively, of conception, judgment, deduction and intuition.

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Mankind should develop reason above all other virtues.

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Something reasonable, in accordance with thought; justice.

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Ratio; proportion.

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To deduce or come to a conclusion by being rational

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To perform a process of deduction or of induction, in order to convince or to confute; to argue.

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To converse; to compare opinions.

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To arrange and present the reasons for or against; to examine or discuss by arguments; to debate or discuss.

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I reasoned the matter with my friend.

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To support with reasons, as a request.

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To persuade by reasoning or argument.

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to reason one into a belief; to reason one out of his plan

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(with down) To overcome or conquer by adducing reasons.

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to reason down a passion

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(usually with out) To find by logical process; to explain or justify by reason or argument.

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to reason out the causes of the librations of the moon

He had no reason to worry.

For some reason, he experienced a very realistic vision.

Maybe there was another reason he decided to reclaim his money.

No reason to learn.

I think everyone was guilty of staring at her at least once - if for no other reason, wondering if she was going to fall out of her dress.

We cannot understand it nor the reason of it.

They have good reason to be incredulous.

There is no reason any of them have to be.

A poor person with a six-year-old car today has more wealth than a poor person with a six-year-old car did back in 1911, for the simple reason that cars are so much better now.

The reason why she read to her pupil so many good books is due, in some measure, to the fact that she had so recently recovered her eyesight.

There was no reason Alex shouldn't tell his father.

But then, he had reason - in his head - to believe it wasn't his.

She was jealous of Dulce, but she had no reason to be.

For some reason, she found it all amusing.

I was, for a reason known to God alone, much more calm than the situation dictated.

Not that Rachel had any reason to complain.

Do you have some reason you want to put it off for a while?

She had given him every reason to believe she was interested in him, so it wasn't too surprising.

No, Bordeaux had only one reason for wanting to marry Cassie - the ranch.

Whatever the reason, the kiss had awakened her as effectively as the prince did sleeping beauty.

Anything that troubled Pete gave her reason to worry.

I outline forty-five different ways this will happen—surely enough that even if you don't agree with them all, you will still have plenty of reason to be optimistic.

She is not conscious of any reason why she should be awkward; consequently, her movements are free and graceful.

What other reason would there be for telling his daughter not to discuss his occupation?

The oracle at Delphi has ordered that it shall be given to the wisest of wise men, and for that reason we have brought it to you.

Certainly she had given him no reason to believe she would.

Depending on function, robots can come in all shapes and sizes, and I see no compelling reason to make them like humans.

Not only did his reason not reproach him for what he had done, but he even found cause for self-satisfaction in having so successfully contrived to avail himself of a convenient opportunity to punish a criminal and at the same time pacify the mob.

What reason did he have to stay with the freighters now?

There's no reason to get all worked up.

Stands to reason, doesn't it?

No reason to say otherwise.

The chief reason for devoting no time either to singing, to dress, or to choosing her words was that she really had no time to spare for these things.

She doesn't have any reason to be jealous of me.

Whatever the reason, she felt compelled to answer flippantly.

According to Denton, there was only one reason why a man would give her so much attention.

There is no reason why she should strike from her vocabulary all words of sound and vision.

I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there.

But today she quite forgot that and was hurt that he should be angry with her without any reason, and she felt unhappy.

It is the reason why the life and activity of people who lived centuries ago and are connected with me in time cannot seem to me as free as the life of a contemporary, the consequences of which are still unknown to me.

However inaccessible to us may be the cause of the expression of will in any action, our own or another's, the first demand of reason is the assumption of and search for a cause, for without a cause no phenomenon is conceivable.

There was no reason to feel threatened.

Whatever the reason, it felt good to have options he didn't know about.

There was another reason she had been turning down Michael's invitations.

I had another reason to go to Ashley.

It read, "Don't call me for any reason for ten days."

As she watched them walk toward the house, it occurred to her that the reason Alex didn't like him was that they were too much alike.

I have no reason to be jealous.

Whatever his reason, the attention was welcome.

There was no reason to pretend she liked the choice.