The phrase "rationalize with" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase when you want to describe a process of discussing a situation with someone in order to reach a mutually beneficial outcome or explain a course of action. For example: "I tried to rationalize with my bank when I couldn't make my mortgage payments, but they wouldn't budge."
I can't rationalize with the anxiety, because it's not rational.
Then Hillary tried to capitalize on Bill's peace efforts in Northern Ireland, and rationalize with them.
I tried to rationalize with him, to convince him he was mistaken.
"But you cannot rationalize with body parts that might be breaking down.
That's the cruel irony: When you're at psychological odds, the last person you can rationalize with is yourself.
Antisocial individuals harbor secret reactions of rage and revenge, which they rationalize with the help of ideologies of hatred, and are discovered only after their heinous crimes have taken their toll on society.
Simply put, YOU'RE ADDICTED and you are rationalizing with drawings and words.
Perhaps a more apt metaphor is colonialism: college sports, as overseen by the N.C.A.A., is a system imposed by well-meaning paternalists and rationalized with hoary sentiments about caring for the well-being of the colonized.
He added, "College sports, as overseen by the N.C.A.A., is a system imposed by well-meaning paternalists and rationalized with hoary sentiments about caring for the well-being of the colonized".
As the fire spreads, his Thoreau springs to life, meditating defensively about accident and intention — "how rapidly the unplanned cause produces the unexpected effect" — and when Pipkin surreptitiously incorporates sections of Thoreau's journals into his character's perspective, he creates a Thoreau who rationalizes with adolescent piquancy: "He has not taken what was not his.
Spectroscopic results have been rationalized with quantum mechanics calculation.
