Sentence examples for were rationalizing from inspiring English sources
verb
To make something rational or more rational.
In other words, they were rationalizing Trump's nihilistic, zero-sum view of the world.
According to her friend Andrew Ward, now in the psychology department at Swarthmore College, "the working assumption in those years was that happy people were rationalizing all the time".
Most founders only realize they were rationalizing when they've run out of time and it's too late.
Results were rationalized with finite element analysis (FEA).
GAZETTE: Both the Union victory and Lincoln's assassination were rationalized as the will of God.
The various experimental results and observations were rationalized.
But back then tax cuts were rationalized by ideas, however silly.
In 1932, the operations were rationalized, cutting costs from NOK 426,000 to NOK 310,000 per year.
I was rationalizing a little.
It is rationalizing its tax-collection system.
"That's how I was rationalizing it".
