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- verb Present participle of
rationalise .
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Examples
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Gothic machinery, in rationalising and mechanising supernatural occurrences and readerly superstition, establishes a cycle of repetition, boredom, stimulation and disappointment that threatens enlightenment ideals of the rational and discriminating individual: its mechanisms evacuate morality, judgement, and even sense, by stimulating a seemingly insatiable appetite for excitement and sensation.
Reading Machines 2005
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"Gothic machinery, in rationalising and mechanising supernatural occurrences and readerly superstition, establishes a cycle of repetition, boredom, stimulation and disappointment that threatens enlightenment ideals of the rational and discriminating individual." close window
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I get told off for "rationalising" my fabric purchases.
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He may be led to a process of 'rationalising' or 'spiritualising' which is dangerous to intellectual honesty.
The English Utilitarians, Volume I. Leslie Stephen 1868
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The extent of IATA's gesture towards the need for reform is in trying to sell the idea that efficiency gains, supplemented by other changes such as rationalising flight routes, are all that are needed.
Center for Media and Democracy - Publishers of PR Watch 2009
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"rationalising" security procedures, while former security minister Lord West said airport checks were "onerous" and had gone too far.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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"rationalising" security procedures, while former security minister Lord West said airport checks were "onerous" and had gone too far.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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The platform should focus on three areas: commoditisation, rationalising the management of common elements of government IT and setting common standards.
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Instead of rationalising our political rules, we will be told to stop moaning and get used to them, because – after all – they're British.
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Later on they even had a go at rationalising the humanoid alien thing.
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