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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Glen tries to rationalize his drinking by saying he deserves a beer after a hard day.
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Since the administrative side of the business has been rationalized, all departments have become more efficient.
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The budget proposed selling off $1,300 million worth of state-run enterprises and rationalizing the tax structure.
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The company has done a lot to rationalize production.
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The Social Security system needs to be rationalized.
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We are a small company, and we need to rationalize if we want to compete in this market.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Abstract internationalism had a strong role to play in rationalizing much more sinister forces than appeared in the rhetoric of Petrograd.
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I was rationalizing that I had mainly young reps and so they needed me....
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It is still rationalized by an elaborate and traditional, even if meretricious, theory of consumer demand.
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Like Nietzsche, Feuerbach frequently shows more sympathy for orthodox believers than for rationalizing modernist theologians.
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Repeated attempts were made to rationalize the system.
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Whining is a form of rationalizing.
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You can try to rationalize your low weight loss.