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What is the verb for rationale?

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rationalize
  1. To make something rational or more rational.
  2. To justify an immoral act, or illogical behaviour. “The process of thought by which one justifies a discreditable act, and by which one offers to oneself and the world a better motive for one's action than the true motive”
  3. (mathematics) To remove radicals, without changing the value of an expression or the roots of an equation.
  4. To structure something along modern, efficient and systematic lines, or according to scientific principles. This often includes eliminating duplication and grouping like or similar items.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “I just remember my shock when he tried to rationalize his decision to isolate himself from all of us.”
      “So I proceeded to rationalize my answer to these questions by responding that a donation would be like using the money to buy stocks or provide venture capital for a business.”
      “The book lauds quartermaster-general Alexander Lawton's efforts to rationalize the procurement process.”
rationalised
rationalise
  1. (British spelling) alternative spelling of rationalize
  2. Examples:
    1. “For respiratory tract infections, the primary goal was to rationalise prescribing, indicated by antibiotic prescription.”
      “In addition the bill will systemise and rationalise the current fragmented regulations that are similar in nature.”
      “At its best, his show celebrates the capacity of our imagination to conceive of, then rationalise, the ridiculous.”
rationalizing
rationalises
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of rationalise
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  3. Examples:
    1. “To be in dispute with the club for which he had played and coached has obviously cut deep, yet Telfer, true to form, rationalises the issue.”
      “It rationalises its workings, and builds and modifies them step by step.”
rationalizes
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of rationalize
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Jason toys with his guilt, rationalizes it, checkmates it before it can trap him.”
      “Use, rather than metalinguistic acknowledgement, rationalizes these aspects of language, and a sense of aesthetic accomplishment arises through employing them.”
      “Talisse's real target, however, is not Rawls's solution, but rather the justificatory pessimism that rationalizes it.”
rationalized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of rationalize
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  3. Examples:
    1. “But the system was rationalized and improved by Alfred's successors, and under Eadgar it emerges clearly in its developed form.”
      “The commission rationalized this system, explaining that other transportation networks already charge variable rates for use at peak hours.”
      “As production becomes rationalized and routinized over time, the skills and hence high wages of the city labor force become unnecessary.”
rationalising
  1. present participle of rationalise
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  3. Examples:
    1. “We wanted a Decommissioning Scheme with sufficient funding to make a real impact on rationalising the Industry.”
      “With this in view, I want to make a beginning towards rationalising the existing system of concessions and exemptions.”
      “It is glib and empty rationalising, which taken literally would imply that nastiness is a prerequisite for success.”
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