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in reason
Idioms and Phrases
Also, within reason . Inside the bounds of good sense, justification, or practicality. For example, We need to keep our prices in reason , or He promised to do what he can to help us, within reason . [Late 1500s]Example Sentences
His appeal isn’t rooted in reason or fact; it’s a gut-level, emotionally charged force, a dark mythic archetype tapping into America’s discontent.
Endorsements are part of a stream of persuasion based on faith in reason.
As he lamented, “The contempt we have been taught to entertain for the blacks makes us fancy many things that are founded neither in reason nor in experience.”
It is a social force based on faith and emotion and corrupt power more than a coherent ideology grounded in reason, facts and the truth.
Per Rule 6.11’s impeachment provisions, a witness can be confronted with any evidence “that has a tendency in reason to discredit the truthfulness or accuracy of the witness’s testimony.”
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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