The phrase "as rationalization" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the justification or reasoning behind a decision or action.
Example: "He offered his late arrival as rationalization for missing the meeting."
Alternatives: "as justification" or "as an excuse".
In psychology this defense mechanism against self-doubt and feelings of failure and loss is known as rationalization because we come up with rational sounding explanations for why we wouldn't really want what we can't have.
He mines his past, not as a reason to change but as rationalization for his worst behavior.
In order to make a freeform design realizable, one usually applies an optimization process known as rationalization.
In sum, our tendencies lead a mental process known as rationalization, whereby we change our attitudes and beliefs to psychologically adapt.
This might respectively facilitate transfer to hospital and admission, as well as rationalization and prioritization of antibiotics administration.
Before Jaffa, the dominant approach in political science had been set by the "progressive" school that treated political ideas in quasi-Marxist terms as rationalizations for economic interests.
Thresher, a former director admissions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, described colleges' justifications for increasing selectivity as "rationalizations for a kind of insensate avarice: we want the best and only the best, we are never satisfied".
This sound account will, however, set aside any distorted act-descriptions that one may offer others, or even oneself, as rationalizations and exculpations of one's choice and act, but that do not correspond to what really made the option attractive, as end or as means, and so was treated, in one's actual course of deliberation, as one's reason for acting as one did.
So Elon seeks solutions for problems, instead of seeking to use problems as rationalizations for endless delay".
Sometimes it's used as a rationalization, as when speaking of ultrahigh alcohol wines: "Alcohol is just a number.
We have switched from a Taylorist rationality based on Scientific Management, which claimed to fit production into a single viewpoint, to a dissemination of the sources of the directions to be followed and an overall destabilization of any attempt at rationalization, and as a consequence, to a looser sense of rationality even among engineers.
