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Example sentences for: rationalization

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Due to this rationalization of delivery cost in the U.S., the postal densities of the most sparsely populated areas are higher than the densities of the most sparsely populated areas of France.
Or because rationalization is worth observing and mocking.
The suspicion that Starr is scheming to make the Senate punish Clinton provides a convenient rationalization for doing the opposite.
"Tax the Knickers Off Your Grandchildren," by Steven E. Landsburg, seems less like a well-reasoned editorial on economics than a weak rationalization for shortsightedness.
This week's New Yorker is light on ads (Chatterbox picked it up and for a second thought it was the New Republic !) but thick with highbrow Clintophilic rationalization in the form of an essay by Henry Louis Gates Jr.