reasonability

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Noun
  • The residents are owed answers, even while understanding the reasonableness of not knowing all of them just yet.
    Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Choosing life over glory is reasonableness in action.
    Nikhil Krishnan, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • That effort advanced in March 2025, when the City Council voted to study the feasibility of bypassing LAHSA and contracting directly with providers.
    Teresa Liu, Daily News, 25 Apr. 2026
  • The feasibility of such a scenario is yet to be established.
    Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • That eliminates the possibility of prices spiking by the hour based on demand signals or individual shopper data.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 27 Apr. 2026
  • So many possibilities, but maybe not a hundred thousand billion of them.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • With the Iran war driving up jet fuel costs for all airlines, creditors earlier this month expressed doubts about Spirit's ongoing viability, raising the possibility that the airline recognized for its bright yellow planes would be forced to sell its assets and cease operating.
    CBS News, CBS News, 24 Apr. 2026
  • The office-to-apartment conversion is part of the latest wave of older office buildings trying to compete for viability against newer buildings in Charlotte and on a national scale.
    Desiree Mathurin, Charlotte Observer, 24 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • But that potentiality feels nascent in Slater’s current rendering of the part rather than fully acknowledged and explored.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2026
  • The film is set in 2029, a mere three years from now, demonstrating both an optimism about the potentiality of AI and a pessimism about the city’s trajectory.
    Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 21 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • This is the plausibility threshold Loftus was pointing out.
    Tim Requarth, Longreads, 9 Apr. 2026
  • The biological plausibility of this being a risk factor for eventually developing MDS is absolutely there, and what remained was getting an adequate registry for demonstrating this.
    Angus Chen, STAT, 27 Mar. 2026
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“Reasonability.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reasonability. Accessed 1 May. 2026.

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