reason
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One reason is that “many of them can’t afford to have money taken out of their paycheck even if they have the opportunity to do so,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Whatever the reason, the Blues are unlikely to suffer such a sudden slump again this season.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
In the 21st century, the reason is often that he’s tired of the taxes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
But the present and possibly future Green Lanterns were summoned there for a reason best left unsaid here, and in keeping with HBO’s extensive spoiler embargo.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
They won’t be home now; it’s the reason I’d wanted to take the train we did.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
Officials acknowledged that some communities would prefer to have exterior lighting for safety reasons.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
A 23-year-old woman said she felt a "profound sense of suffocation", speaking to AFP on condition of anonymity for security reasons.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
“And so for all those reasons we felt very confident that this was the right move to make.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
While some beloved European drugstore brands are sold in the U.S., skin care and beauty lovers cite a host of reasons for buying abroad, from lower prices to differences in formulations or products.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
I don’t see why that matters, but I guess they had their reasons.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
Thus, prosecutors reasoned that they could not prove Tilford created the recording and did so without the others’ knowledge.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
"It is possible to say that more could have been done, but there was a serious risk of financial meltdown," Tombs reasoned.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
And she reasoned, very simply, that the way her children were being held was involuntary servitude and that under this new law, they should be freed.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
The researchers reasoned that the same enzyme might produce other peptides that influence energy balance and appetite.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 24, 2026
The warriors reasoned that the lion had eaten too much to run fast and that the muddy ground would slow him up.
From "Facing the Lion" by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton and Herman Viola
Nobody really chooses to understand the reasoning why.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
As the puzzles became more difficult, the results suggested that language was not necessary for this form of reasoning.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
Ten of 19 officials who participated in July’s policy meeting, including half of all 12 voters, spoke publicly in the days after the meeting, supplying reasoning Warsh hadn’t.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
Brain imaging also indicated that regions responsible for processing language are not recruited for logical reasoning.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
If it had survived the war, the reasoning went, then it could survive the Tallises.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
Vocabulary lists containing reason
Argumentative Writing
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