Example Sentences

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This work is necessary – but it can only proceed with a more sophisticated analysis of how today’s landscape of hyperrational power has coerced a new and increasingly potent irrationalism into existence.

From The Guardian • Dec. 8, 2016

Would a secular, hyperrational country facing this same array of threats have acted differently?

From Washington Post • Apr. 9, 2015

That in turn allows him to coldly allocate capital and manpower and make hyperrational business decisions, where another executive might let emotion and personal relationships figure into the equation.

From BusinessWeek • Oct. 10, 2013

But from his first days as president, Obama has sought to strike a pragmatic, hyperrational balance between caution and aggression.

From Newsweek • May 5, 2011

You feel your way with the speed of light, by some hyperrational process, to truth.”

From Martin Eden by London, Jack