Example Sentences

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The federal appeals court had reasoned the dog toy product was a creative work parodying the whiskey bottle and therefore was protected by the First Amendment.

From Washington Times • Jun. 8, 2023

In deciding to leave Kyiv, Zaritska had reasoned it would be safer on the capital’s outskirts instead of its urban center.

From Washington Post • Apr. 15, 2022

Dakota LeRoy, a 25-year-old product designer in Manhattan who is fully vaccinated, had reasoned that it would be safe to go to a Christmas-themed dive bar to celebrate a new job last week.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 17, 2021

The company published a long paper explaining how it had reasoned through potential attacks on the system and defended against them.

From Reuters • Aug. 13, 2021

Rocky had reasoned it out with him; it was impossible for the dead man to be Josiah, because Josiah was an old Laguna man, thousands of miles from the Philippine jungles and Japanese armies.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko