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The phrase "a reasonable definition" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing or presenting a definition that is logical, sensible, or acceptable within a certain context.
Example: "In the context of our discussion, a reasonable definition of success might be achieving personal goals while maintaining a work-life balance."
Alternatives: "a sensible explanation" or "an acceptable description".
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This might actually be a reasonable definition of sanity".
That seems like a reasonable definition to me, and one I'm prepared to accept.
No matter that a reasonable definition had replaced a ludicrous one: it was a change.
His solution is not to walk away from societies racked by civil war but to establish a reasonable definition of success before embarking on a military intervention.
Let's use the Atlanta Fed Jobs calculator: I get roughly 31 months to a reasonable definition of full employment at this rate.
As Marion Nestle and Malden Nesheim recount in their book Why Calories Count: From Science To Politics, Spurlock's crew "could not find even one person who could come up with a reasonable definition".
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If, by contrast, we are concerned solely with claims that are in principle "satiable," such claims having a reasonable definitions of sufficiency, then these standards of sufficiency will most likely be very high.
Jair Bolsonaro, a far-right congressman, is by any reasonable definition an authoritarian, a fascist and a potential dictator.
There is, for example, the case of Floyd James Thompson, who retired from the Army with the rank of colonel in 1982 and is a hero by any reasonable definition of the term.
The creation of 120,000 new jobs was not a disaster by any reasonable definition.
We would expect any reasonable definition of a species to delineate a cluster of isolates that have very closely-related house-keeping loci that are present in all isolates of a species (as has also been proposed for eukaryotes [ 11]).
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
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